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in reply to Putting the stringified Regexp object into code

Is there a reason you are avoiding using a closure? Doing something like
my $re = qr(/); my $code = sub {if ($_[0] =~ $re) { blah() }}; ... $code->($data);
will probably save you some maintenance headache and keeps errors more localized to where they were coded. There is nothing wrong per se with what you've done, but it doesn't take advantage of a lot of the strengths modern Perl has to offer. In my own work, I have found that a string eval correlates strongly with me being too clever for my own good.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.