What are you talking about cheesyjames? I can guess, and it'd be a pretty good guess at that, but I do not want to. You must tell me what you mean cheesyjames. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -lw
use strict;
# here is one thing you might want
sub what
{
  my $what = shift;
  return ($what - 5);
}
my $string = 'a and a b and a 5 and a 6 and a 8 an what?';
print $string;
$string =~ s/(\d)/&what($1)/ge;

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The other thing I think you might be thinking (dang that sounds stupid) is something along the lines of m/\d$pattern\b\l\a\h &what('what')/ where you want &what('what') to be expanded, in which case the only thing I can think of is for you to either store the value of &what in a variable.

update: well you could always use eval, but I find that is in poor taste (I think it is a piss poor choice in design, when one must resort to "passing" functions via STDIN).

 
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perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

In reply to (crazyinsomniac) Re: functions inside patterns by crazyinsomniac
in thread functions inside patterns by cheesyjames

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