Re: Format string and regex question

Without the /g (global) modifier, the subsitution only fires once. Try

    $format_string =~ s/%(\w)/eval "$$1"/ge;

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Re: Re: Format string and regex question by repson (Chaplain) on Jan 01, 2001 at 16:04 UTC
Just one slight problem... `$$` is the current program pid, since $1 is not a scalar ref to dereference. It might be better to quote the first $ sign if this behaviour is not desireable (which would have been the cause for half of the original problem as well). `$format_string =~ s/%(\w)/"\$$1"/eeg;` And the second eval can be moved outside.	[reply] [d/l] [select]