SPUG: passing in a reg exp as a string, then interpolating

Christopher Cavnor chris at enthusiasm.com
Fri Jun 9 14:15:51 CDT 2000


does anyone know how to pass a regular expression into a script (in my
case, from an HTML form) and then evaluate the expression?

I am passing in a reg exp (like "/^hello/ ")as a string and grabbing it
(my $regexp = /^hello/ ), and then trying to interpolate:

push @results, $k if do{ $k =~ @{[ $regexp ]};

Doesn't seem to be working. Any tricks for doing this?


Chris

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