Well that was (is) my confusion at his mentioning the phrase "a real quoted regex".   _If_ he means a compiled qr() regex then while he's still throwing the result reference value around the ref() is the right way to check.

But once he forces the qr() reference value to be stringified, it'll end up in the "(?-xism:^[Zz]owie!?$)" form and he'll have to recognize that 'unique' format.

And then his checking will fail because the leading part shows which options are and are not in effect.   Using qr{^Zzowie!?$}sm will, when stringified, result in "(?ms-xi:^[Zz]owie!?$)".   Zowie!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Walks like a regex, quacks like a regex... by shenme
in thread Walks like a regex, quacks like a regex... by legLess

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