IMHO it is a security and speed issu
I switched it of with a pragma like this:
use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL;
my $match = EVAL "/$m/";
if $test_string ~~ $match { say 'yea' }
Andreas
On 11.05.17 10:32, Sean McAfee wrote:
> I've been searching for how to parse a string into a regex, like qr/$str/
> does in Perl 5, but so far without success.
>
> At first I assumed, by analogy with .Str, .List, etc, that I could call
> .Regex on a string, but this is not the case.
>
> On IRC's #perl6 I learned about the <$str> construct, which doesn't really
> create a new regex, but keeps a reference to the string around, with some
> (to me) surprising semantics:
>
> my $str = 'foo';
> my $re = rx/<$str>/;
> $str = 'bar';
> 'foo' ~~ $re; # no match
>
> Still, it's *almost* sufficient for my needs, except that for the purposes
> of a golfing challenge I'm working on, I want to parse the argument to a
> WhateverCode object into a regex, but this:
>
> map rx/<*>/, <a b c>;
>
> ...rather predictably doesn't work.
>
> So, is there in fact any way to simply parse a string into a brand-new
> Regex object?
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