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Changeable modifiers in a regex
:-) They are quite complex... the code within the if{} more than the regex itself. Unfortunately I can't do it exactly as you suggest because I need "if $a =~ /blah/ {loads of stuff which is all common to the two checks, and which I don't want to duplicate}", not just "$a =~ /blah/". The...- markasmith
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Changeable modifiers in a regex
Well it boils down to there being a variable which (by some earlier magic) is now '1' if we are to be case-insensitive, or 0 if case-sensitive. Are the values of $1, $2 etc. available to you as the top level if set by a reg-ex from within a subroutine? I've thought of a way of doing it... if...- markasmith
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- Forum: Perl
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Changeable modifiers in a regex
Hi, Using Perl 5.6.1, I need a reg-ex which is sometimes case-sensitive, sometimes case-insensitive, according to something which happened earlier. I've tried this: $caseSensitiveCharacter = "i"; (or) $caseSensitiveCharacter = ""; [...then...] if (...- markasmith
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