Hello Monks!

I am building a little graphical tool to search and replace strings in text files in an interactive manner. For the replace function, I would like the ability to capture substrings in order to reuse them in the replace string. So far I did not find a way to use the $1 when it is not hardcoded.
This would be an example of user input : 
$string1='sometext(.*)something(.*)';
$string2='$1:$2';

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This would be the replace statement.
$mystring =~ s/$string1/$string2/g;

I have tried a couple of ways but I don't seem to be able to find a right way. Maybe I missed something very basic or maybe I should use some module to do this.
I am pretty new to Perl so I will not be annoyed if I am directed to a piece of documentation :D

Can please someone advise?
Thanks Zylot

In reply to Capturing in interactive replace? by zylot

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