On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> I wrote a sample script whose behaviour seems strange to me. At least
> I can't find in the doc why it behaves so, nor what I should write to
> get the expected result.
>
> ==== The sample script
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $TRANSLATION = '\1;$2';
> $str = "ab";
> $str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION};
[snip]
Have you tried wrapping the substitution statement with an "eval"
construct yet? I think that should make it work.
Cheers,
Joost
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