Re^3: Problem with regex passed to a hash

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in reply to Re^2: Problem with regex passed to a hash
in thread Problem with regex passed to a hash

> It looks like with single quotes I passing the regex as is

not exactly. your passing the variable's symbol.

Seems like that module does an eval on the string you pass.

So passing in singelquotes means that eval '/$username/' fails because $username is unknown in the module's namespace.