Hi Perl-Buddies, I'm wondering how to get a regex into my code at run-time. I mean in a command line like this:
# my_perl_program "foo(\w|and|or)+bar" foobar.txt and in my code I want to be able to search the foobar.txt file with the regex found in the quotes. So if I assign the above to a variable: my $regex = shift; How do I use the regex in $regex in a m// oeration? Do I just throw it in there? /$regex/ That seems to work, but is it doing what I think it's doing? I may be over-thinking myself here, but it just seems too easy! --Errin Larsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
