Partly in answer to choroba's challenge, here's an approach that works with forward/backslashes, escape sequences and capture variables in replacement strings. Whether it will answer your needs is another question. A fixup step for forward slashes is necessary. Works under Perl versions 5.8.9 and 5.30.3.

Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Thu 11/26/2020 4:08:05 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl use strict; use warnings; my $pattern = '(\\\\tEs/Ti//N\x67\\\)'; my $replacement = '\\\Fr/es//h\\\\ \U$1'; my $flags = 'i'; # $got_g is true if /g modifier present in flags. # ($flags, my $got_g) = sanitize_flags_detect_g($flags); fixup_forward_slashes($pattern, $replacement); my $value = 'My \Tes/ti//ng\ Text'; print "replacement '$replacement' \n"; my $eval_string = "\$value =~ s/$pattern/$replacement/$flags"; print "eval_string '$eval_string' \n"; eval $eval_string; print "eval err '$@' \n"; print "output '$value' \n"; sub fixup_forward_slashes { s{/}'\/'g for @_; } ^Z replacement '\\Fr\/es\/\/h\\ \U$1' eval_string '$value =~ s/(\\tEs\/Ti\/\/N\x67\\)/\\Fr\/es\/\/h\\ \U$1/i +' eval err '' output 'My \Fr/es//h\ \TES/TI//NG\ Text'
It's awkward that a \ single literal backslash in the input/output string must be represented by a \\ double backslash in the substitution and by \\\ triple or \\\\\ quadruple backslashes in the single-quoted pattern/replacement strings, but that's single/double-quotish backslash handling for ya. If the pattern/replacement strings were taken from a file, it would be possible to just use double backslashes.


Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<


In reply to Re^2: Regexp substitution using variables by AnomalousMonk
in thread Regexp substitution using variables by MikeTaylor

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.