in reply to Re: Store regex modifiers in variables?
in thread Store regex modifiers in variables?

Or /(?$modifiers:$pattern)/ where $modifiers can be "i-sm", for example, to turn on "i" and turn off "s" and "m". The first form (without a ":" affects the rest of the regex. The second form only affects the stuff between the parens.

See "perldoc perlre" for more info. See also qr in "perldoc perlop".

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