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regex - How can I use a variable in the replacement side of the Perl substitution operator?

I would like to do the following:

$find = "start (.*) end";
$replace = "foo 1 bar";

$var = "start middle end";
$var =~ s/$find/$replace/;

I would expect $var to contain "foo middle bar", but it does not work. Neither does:

$replace = 'foo 1 bar';

Somehow I am missing something regarding the escaping.

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On the replacement side, you must use $1, not 1.

And you can only do what you want by making replace an evalable expression that gives the result you want and telling s/// to eval it with the /ee modifier like so:

$find="start (.*) end";
$replace='"foo $1 bar"';

$var = "start middle end";
$var =~ s/$find/$replace/ee;

print "var: $var
";

To see why the "" and double /e are needed, see the effect of the double eval here:

$ perl
$foo = "middle";
$replace='"foo $foo bar"';
print eval('$replace'), "
";
print eval(eval('$replace')), "
";
__END__
"foo $foo bar"
foo middle bar

(Though as ikegami notes, a single /e or the first /e of a double e isn't really an eval(); rather, it tells the compiler that the substitution is code to compile, not a string. Nonetheless, eval(eval(...)) still demonstrates why you need to do what you need to do to get /ee to work as desired.)


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