On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > my $regex = 's/$/_addsomejunk/'; > my $str = 'something'; > > how do I use the $regex on $str to turn $str into "something_addsomejunk"; Why not just use concatenation? $str .= '_addsomejunk'; //Ed