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See 92008 for a hint, and Regexp for more details.

Bottom line: qr// returns a Regexp object, which retains its original string representation, and overloads "" to return that value.

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Re^2: Using a hash reference in a regular expression
by johngg (Canon) on May 23, 2006 at 09:21 UTC
    Thank you for the pointers and the explanation. I should have realised that what I was seeing was just a representation and that the real "magic" is hidden away in an object.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

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