In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott E Robinson) writes: >Is there a way in Perl to read the abbreviation >dicitionary (the tab-delimited list), generate the code, insert it into the >right subroutine, and start executing the program, all in one script?
perldoc -f eval Also there is a good discussion on dynamically generating regex matching code in "Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph Hall (Addison-Wesley). Doubtless there are free on-line equivalents but references escape me for the moment. -- Peter Scott http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
