Re: Insert Var in Regex Problem

[Felix Geerinckx]

on Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:05:58 GMT, Connie Chan wrote:

> Say, I have an input $x = "ABCDEF";
> and I will try to remove $x from a string, 
> what can I do ?
> 
> Is there something like :
> 
> $x =~ s/$x//g; 

That's just a complicated way to say

    $x = '';

But this works:

    #! perl -w
    use strict;

    my $string = "abcde-to remove-fghij";
    my $x = "-to remove-";

    $string =~ s/$x//;
    print $string; # prints sbcdefghij

-- 
felix

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