in reply to Storing Regex Patterns in Scalars

Try the following: 
my $regex1 = '(hello)';
my $test = 'hello there';
if ($test =~ /$regex1/)
{
    print "$1\n";
}

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It shoudl work just fine. Also, you're looking for qr//. Look for it under quoting operators.

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