Re^2: calling subroutines within a regular expression?

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Re^3: calling subroutines within a regular expression? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2009 at 00:43 UTC
This doesn't seem to work: `>perl -wMstrict -le "use constant RX => qr{ [atc]{3} }xms; my $s = 'the cat in the hat'; print 'found' if $s =~ /${+RX}/; print qq{found a $1} if $s =~ /(${+RX})/; " Use of uninitialized value in regexp compilation ... found Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string ... found a` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: calling subroutines within a regular expression? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 05, 2009 at 05:30 UTC
You're right. It looked like it worked on the original to me because it matched "cat" against "" which "found" it. The + is a way to force constants to evaluate, also works, in some contexts, with spelling it out as the sub it is, `RX()`. Doesn't work here though. :(	[reply] [d/l]