Re^2: using a regex to determine if a string is the start of the FILE

My apologies. In another part of the code, which I didn't post the compile statement looks like:

my $rx = qr/$_/;
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and I can't change that either. I do believe there is a way to put modifiers into a regex tho, I'll have a poke around in perlretut

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Re^3: using a regex to determine if a string is the start of the FILE by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2008 at 12:35 UTC
Yes you can, `(?ms:$regex)`. Note that the scoping of /m inside the regex changed between perl 5.8.8 and perl 5.10.0.	[reply] [d/l]