Perhaps you need to include your options within the regular expression. For example:

/(?i)foo/

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is equivalent to

/foo/i

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You can then leave the delimiters off and just put (?i)foo in your configuration file.

See "Cloistered Pattern Modifiers" on p186 of the Camel (3ed) or the perlre section on (?imsx-imsx) for more details.

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In reply to Re: How do pack a regular expression in a variable? by davorg
in thread How do pack a regular expression in a variable? by pppaulll

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