IMHO it is a security and speed issu I switched it of with a pragma like this:
use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL; my $match = EVAL "/$m/"; if $test_string ~~ $match { say 'yea' } Andreas On 11.05.17 10:32, Sean McAfee wrote: > I've been searching for how to parse a string into a regex, like qr/$str/ > does in Perl 5, but so far without success. > > At first I assumed, by analogy with .Str, .List, etc, that I could call > .Regex on a string, but this is not the case. > > On IRC's #perl6 I learned about the <$str> construct, which doesn't really > create a new regex, but keeps a reference to the string around, with some > (to me) surprising semantics: > > my $str = 'foo'; > my $re = rx/<$str>/; > $str = 'bar'; > 'foo' ~~ $re; # no match > > Still, it's *almost* sufficient for my needs, except that for the purposes > of a golfing challenge I'm working on, I want to parse the argument to a > WhateverCode object into a regex, but this: > > map rx/<*>/, <a b c>; > > ...rather predictably doesn't work. > > So, is there in fact any way to simply parse a string into a brand-new > Regex object? -- Andreas Müller - Raum: 35/114b - Tel: 2875