"Ling F. Zhang" wrote:
>
> Is is possible to pass a regular express as the
> parameter of an argument...
Yes. You can use the qr// operator to store a regular expression in a
scalar.
> for example (a stupid one):
>
> I want to write a function search such that when I
> call:
> search ($string,/^T.../)
>
> that basically just do
> $string =~ m/^T.../
search( $string, qr/^T.../ );
sub search {
my ( $string, $regex ) = @_;
$string =~ /$regex/;
}
John
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