Re: passing regular expression

Just like any other argument, really.

For creating the regex object it helps to use the qr{...} quoting construct:

my $re = qr{^yikes}i;
your_sub($re, $other, $arguments);
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Re^2: passing regular expression by karthikasasanka (Acolyte) on Oct 09, 2009 at 06:37 UTC
thank you, Is it possible to write a subroutine which can take regular expression like split function does. `@a = split(/ /,"this is a string");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: passing regular expression by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 09, 2009 at 08:53 UTC
I don't think that's possible for non-builtin functions. If it is, it might work with a prototype, see perlsub.	[reply]