[Chicago-talk] using a regex in a variable

[Steven Lembark]

--On Friday, October 24, 2003 08:54:54 -0500 Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I have:
>
> my $regex = 's/$/_addsomejunk/';
> my $str = 'something';
>
> how do I use the $regex on $str to turn $str into "something_addsomejunk";

It doesn't work that way -- unless you intend to eval the regex.

You can use:

    $added = '_blah';

    $str =~ s/$/$blah/;

In this case, however, since you are replacing the end of a string
why not just use:

    $str .= $added;

to append it?


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