in reply to Using 'ord' in a regular expression for substitution

You don't. Try instead:

# Build a regular expression:
my $regex = qr/ord(226)/i;

# Use it to alter $string:
$string =~ s/$regex/'/g;

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Having said that, I doubt you want to use ord, as it converts a character into a number. I suspect you want chr which turns the number into a character...

Update: Ignore this stupid post, please.

...roboticus

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Re^2: Using 'ord' in a regular expression for substitution
by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 25, 2010 at 15:24 UTC
    What makes you think that $r = qr/STRING/i; s/$r/REPL/g; would work where s/STRING/REPL/ig; doesn't?

    qr/ord(226)/ fails in exactly the same way s/ord(226)/'/ig; does. Both match "ord226" and set (if matched) $1 to 226.

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