A slightly different approach using the same idea is to put the qr// statements directly in the file and eval them after reading in. This improves the readability if the file is to be edited by human beings.

So the regex data file would look like this: 

qr/abc/i
qr/^\d+$/m
...

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Reading in and evaling (of course this might introduce some security problems) could then be done this way: 
my @regexes;

# read in
open RE, "< my_re.pl" or die "can't read my_re.pl: $!";
while(<RE>) {
  chomp;
  push @regexes, eval;
}
close RE;

# and do the matching
for my $re (@regexes) {
  if ($text =~ $re) {
    # do something
  }
}

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With some extra effort one could even allow multiline regexes in the data file.

-- Hofmator

In reply to Re: Re: save regex in a file? by Hofmator
in thread save regex in a file? by smackdab

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