perlquestion yoda54 Monks,<p> I'd like to read a bunch of regular expressions from a flat text for use in a script. After I read the file, how do I tell Perl thats this 'data' is a regular expression? <p>I'd like to accomplish something like the following. <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $data = "duck"; while(<DATA>) { if ($data =~ $_) { print "$data\n"; } } __DATA__ s/duck/luck/qr </code>