"Dr.Ruud" <rvtol+usenet@isolution.nl> writes: > Craig A. Berry wrote: > >> a regex inside of a regex is still unsupported > > IIRC, code similar to the following is somewhere in the documentation. > (but maybe including the e-modifier doesn't apply to the above?) > > perl -wle' > my $s = "abc 123232323 def"; > $s =~ s/([0-9]+)/ (my $t = $1) =~ s!.!*!g; $t /e; > print $s; > ' > abc ********* def No. That's ok. What's dodgy is: m{ (?{ m<...> }) } This shows up when calling functions within (?{}) and (??{}). JoshThread Previous | Thread Next