Yep, that's why s///e*e* exists :) http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#s/PATTERN... | Hacker News

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shabble on April 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP: A fractal of bad design

Yep, that's why s///ee exists :)

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ms...

"e Evaluate the right side as an expression.

ee Evaluate the right side as a string then eval the result."

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