Maybe what you are looking for is Regexp::Assemble.

-- snip
source - When using tracked mode, after a successful match is made, returns the original source pattern that caused the match. In Perl 5.10, the $^R variable can be used to as an index to fetch the correct pattern from the object. If no successful match has been performed, or the object is not in tracked mode, this method returns "undef".
-- snap 
use Regexp::Assemble;
my $r = Regexp::Assemble->new->track(1)->add(qw(foo? bar{2} [Rr]at));

  for my $w (qw(this food is rather barren)) {
    if ($w =~ /$r/) {
      print "$w matched by ", $r->source($^R), $/;
    }
    else {
      print "$w no match\n";
    }
  }

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prints 
this no match
food matched by foo?
is no match
rather matched by [Rr]at
barren matched by bar{2}

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In reply to Re: set value of a variable to a regexp by codeacrobat
in thread set value of a variable to a regexp by pc2

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