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Re: Store regular expressions in a file.

by sundialsvc4 (Abbot)
on Nov 11, 2010 at 12:08 UTC ( [id://870837]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Store regular expressions in a file.

The magic voodoo you are looking for is:   qr/some_expression/.

This operator compiles a regular expression that is made from some_string.

When constructing the string, be careful:   you might be tempted to use interpolation (double-quotes...) but this will cause the “rabbit-food” of the regex syntax itself to be turned into escape-characters.

Furthermore, you might find that you can successfully put a string-variable reference into the regular expression string (i.e. without using qr//), and find that it is properly interpolated.   If you simply want to substitute “a particular string to search for” into an otherwise-fixed expression, this is one way to do that.

If the regexes to be used are truly arbitrary, however, you will want to use qr//, and to enclose that statement in an eval block to trap runtime errors caused by invalid regex syntax.

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