[lug] Re: Self-modifying Perl

[mohadib]

I have seen perl syntax that lets you store regex , saw it in perl
appoclypse 5 I think.

fyi,
jd

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:52 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> Never mind... I just discovered the 'eval' command and answered my own
> question!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:39:51PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> > Is there a way to execute Perl regex commands as variables within Perl? For
> > eaxmple, this doesn't work, but is something like it possible?
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > 
> > my $cmd = 's/\d/!/g';
> > while (<>) {
> >   chop;
> >   $cmd;
> >   print "$_\n";
> > }
> > 
> > What I'd like to be able to do is execute $cmd as if it were the substitute
> > regex. Ultimately, $cmd would be "fed" from a data file, which would allow
> > the program to behave differently depend on which data file I feed it.
> > 
> > - Bill Thoen
> > 
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