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in thread How to do regex backreferences within $variable replacement text?

Sorry, coffe effect still applies: it needs two eval switches (now updated).

You can't do it without evaluation in some form. You could parse the replaced string for $n's and then replace those with their respective captured text. I'll post something in a while

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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