Fellow Celebates,

This should be simple, and I`m sure it CAN be done...Sad enough I`m also
sure that I haven`t been able to do it yet......

I want to apply a RegEx to a variable .. easy... BUT the RegEx resides
in a scalar...
Vars: 
my $String="1234A4321";
my $RegEx="/a/i";

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Code1:
{
$String=~/a/i;
print "Match: ",$&||"none"," Pre: ",$`||"none"," Post: ",$'||"none","\
+n";
}

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prints: Match: A Pre: 1234 Post: 4321
Good.. I had expected that...

Code2..n:
{
$String=~$RegEx;
print "Match: ",$&||"none"," Pre: ",$`||"none"," Post: ",$'||"none","\
+n";
}
{
 eval $String=~$RegEx;
 print "Match: ",$&||"none"," Pre: ",$`||"none"," Post: ",$'||"none","
+\n";
}
{
 eval
 {
  $String=~$RegEx;
 };
 print "Match: ",$&||"none"," Pre: ",$`||"none"," Post: ",$'||"none","
+\n";
}

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prints:
Match: none Pre: none Post: none
Match: none Pre: none Post: none
Match: none Pre: none Post: none
Match: none Pre: none Post: none

This is frustrating.. I`m just looking for code X (be it in an eval, or not, I don`t care)
that prints Match: A Pre: 1234 Post: 4321, given $String and $RegEx....

Any help would be very much appreciated...

GreetZ!,

print "profeth still\n" if /bird|devil/;

In reply to Applying a RegEx in a variable by ChOas

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