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.

No need for eval for that. s/$pattern_from_file/.../ works fine on its own.

I could see you using eval is you had the following code pattern and you wanted $r to interpolate captures in $s (e.g. $1): 

my $s = '...';
my $r = '...';
s/$s/$r/

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In other words, if you wanted $r to be a template. The problem is that eval makes a very poor template system.

In reply to Re^3: Eval Function Question by ikegami
in thread Eval Function Question by brwarn

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