you want the qr// operator
that means 'quote regex'
hth
Jos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adimoolam Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:18 PM
Subject: Regular Expressions
> Hi,
>
> In a nutshell, I have been trying to store a reg. exp. in a variable so
that
> it can be called later. If it can be stored in a variable, is there any
> penalty incurred in terms of run time efficiency, etc?
>
> Explanation of the above question is given below:
> I am storing the reg. exp. in "$variable" and use its contents for pattern
> matching in two different ways.
>
> 1) $variable =
> qq(^\s*Content\s+\w+,\s+\d{1,2}\s+\w+\s+\d{4}\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+-\d{4});
>
> if (/$variable/) {
>
> ....processing
>
> }
>
>
> or something like this:
>
> 2) $variable =
> qq(m/^\s*Content\s+\w+,\s+\d{1,2}\s+\w+\s+\d{4}\s+\d+:\d+:\d+\s+-\d{4}/);
>
> if ($_ =~ $variable) {
>
> ....processing
>
> }
>
> Is it possible to something like that or is there any other way of doing
it?
>
> Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
> naren
>
>
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