In this case, you could also use s///ee (double eval). 

my $line = 'The quick <CM>HTMLINSERT:<img src="grab me!"></CM> brown f
+ox';
my $key  = '<CM>HTMLINSERT:<img src=([^>]+)></CM>';
my %fsr_hash;
$fsr_hash{$key} = '"<figure><graphic url=$1/></figure></p>"';

$line =~ s/$key/$fsr_hash{$key}/gee;

print "$line\n";

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___

$ ./701504.pl
The quick <figure><graphic url="grab me!"/></figure></p> brown fox

[download]

Unless I've overlooked something (which I'm sure someone would point out :), the usual worries about possibly executing arbitrary Perl code do not apply here, because whatever user input is in $1, despite the double eval it won't be evaluated — i.e. something like ... src=@{[...some evil code...]} ... in the input, will just produce 

The quick <figure><graphic url=@{[...some evil code...]}/></figure></p
+> brown fox

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(Of course, allowing arbitrary HTML code to be included could also be problematic... but that's another issue...)

In reply to Re: backreferencing fails in a search and replace with a hash by almut
in thread backreferencing fails in a search and replace with a hash by tonyz

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