On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Bryan R Harris wrote:
> > Can you do this:
> >
> > $var =~ s/\{([^}]*)\}/$v = $1; $v =~ s!,!|!g; qq!($v)!/ge;
>
> Holy cow, is that legal??!! It took me at least 30 seconds just to
> figure out that those commands were inside the s/// command.
See the 'e' at the end of the s/// block? That turns on Execution of the
code contained inside the right-hand-side of the substitution statement.
Useful trick, sometimes...
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