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This is a duplicate of my answer to Parse::RandGen::Regexp

As the qr// method runs in interpolative context one can do

use strict;
my $match='test';
my $regex_match=qr/$match/i;
my $test_value='This is a Test';
print 'It matches' if $test_value=~m/$regex_match/;
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CountZero

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In reply to Re^3: Reverse engineering regular expressions by CountZero
in thread Reverse engineering regular expressions by paulski

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