Re: Naked quotes work like m//?

A quoted string or a scalar has successfully bound via =~ as long as I've been doing Perl, since 5.6.1:

[21:40:24.90] P:\test>perl5.6.1 -wle" 'fred' =~ '(re)' and print $1"
re

[21:41:41.51] P:\test>perl5.6.1 -wle"$re = '(re)'; 'fred' =~ $re and p
+rint $1"
re
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But if you need modifiers, then you need m//opts

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Re^2: Naked quotes work like m//? by ihb (Deacon) on Dec 09, 2004 at 01:41 UTC
But if you need modifiers, then you need m//opts For the "xism" modifiers (as I like to call them) you can use the `(?imsx-imsx)` and `(?imsx-imsx:)` assertions. See perlref for more on that. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read! Read argumentation in its context!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Naked quotes work like m//? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 09, 2004 at 01:50 UTC
Yes, I was thinking about the /gc modifiers. I've often wished that there were some way to embed these into a qr// prepared regex. If we had a reentrant regex engine, that concept might actually be meaningful:) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "But you should never overestimate the ingenuity of the sceptics to come up with a counter-argument." -Myles Allen "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Time is a poor substitute for thought"--theorbtwo "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]