On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 2. Can arbitrary regular expressions, including /PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/
> > versions
> > for substitutions, be used as subroutine arguments, and if so, how?
>
> Store the parts in variables.
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Specifically, use the qr// operator to create precompiled regexes that
can be stored in a scalar:
my $regex = qr/^.*?([0-9,a-f]{8}):.*$/;
$string =~ s/$regex/$1/;
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