I'm trying to understand this: 
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10 dollars.\n"; s/(10)/$1/; print;'
I have 10 dollars.
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10 dollars.\n"; s/(10)/$1+1/; print;'
I have 10+1 dollars.
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10 dollars.\n"; s/(10)/$1+1/e; print;'
I have 11 dollars.

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Up to this, everything as expected. But now: 
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10+4 dollars.\n"; s/(10\+4)/$1/; print;'
I have 10+4 dollars.
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10+4 dollars.\n"; s/(10\+4)/$1/e; print;'
I have 10+4 dollars.
$ perl -We '$_="I have 10+4 dollars.\n"; s/(10\+4)/$1/ee; print;'
I have 14 dollars.

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What I don't understand is why, in the second case, the first and second outputs are the same, and thus I need two /ee to have the expression evaluated. After all, $1 is already "10+4", so a single /e should be enough to evaluate it.

I'm surely missing something here. Thanks for any help.

In reply to /e in regexes by waldner

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