I asked my colleague to assist me to describe why we ended up down this path:
1. We need to read regular expression statements from a file. 2. The statements get read in from a file into a string and then need to be evaluated.
3. He put the whole replacement regex into a string, but neither of us recall now the reason for needing to do so.
4. We ultimately realized after reviewing the post that we needed to escape the [ that followed our $1 replacement -- we're guessing that $1[ looked like the opening part of an array.
5. Anyway, the answers posted here were indeed correct and assist us greatly to get our escape characters in the proper locations in the source regex file we're using.

-Brian

In reply to Re^2: Eval Function Question by brwarn
in thread Eval Function Question by brwarn

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