I'm trying to assign a variable a regex, then pass the varibale to a subroutine, then use the passed regex in the subroutine to find a value in a line of text and then return that value. I've tried quotes, single quotes, using quotes around the passed variable in the sub, not using quotes. I've found that since there are spaces in the string I'm searching I have to use to 2 escapes because 1 of the escapes gets stripped. Here's what it looks like: 
$val1 = 'Torque\\sDriver\\sCS\#:\\s*(\\D{2}\\d{4})';
   $tq = &val_search($val1);

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and then in the sub:
sub val_search
{
 my $ret_val = 0;                                          
  { 
   
   ($ret_val) = ($line =~ /$_[0]/);
   print "ret_val = ", $ret_val, "\n";
   return $ret_val;
  }
 }

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I've tried every combination I can think of, does anyone have an idea of how to properly do this?

In reply to passing a regex to a sub by mark4444az

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