I am writing a program that requires being able to load in a list of strings representing regexes and regex options from a ascii file and then construct a list of compiled regexes from them. The code looks something like this: 
use strict;

sub make_regex_list{
  my @regexes;
  foreach my $strings (@_) {
    my($regex_string,$options)=@$strings;
    push @regexes,qr/(?$options)$regex_string/;
  }
  return @regexes;
}

my $string = "Jack Jack John";
# in real code this array would be constructed 
# from a file
my @reStrings=(["jack","ig"],["john","i"]);
my @REGEXES=make_regex_list(@reStrings);
foreach my $regex (@REGEXES) {
  $string=~s/$regex/name/;
}
print $string."\n";

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It doesn't quite work how I want it to though. The output appears like this, 
"name Jack name"

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So, it appears the 'i' option works, but not the 'g'. What can I do to get the 'g' option to work? I know I can use eval , but I would like to avoid this. Thanks!

In reply to Constructing a list of regexes by fletcher_the_dog

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