Dead easy!

I've got a log file parser, and I did it like this:

my $TagStart = "tag start.*swfm l . info";
my $TagStop  = "tag stop";
...
insert() if ($curnt =~ /$TagStart/i);
...
last if ($curnt =~ /$TagStop/i);
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You can use all the standard pattern matching thingies inside the quotes for the variables, and then slap the vars in between the slashes, and it all works fine.

Spike.