#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use utf8; my $str1 = "abc"; my $str2 = "a b c"; my $re = qq/\s/; print $re; #if ($str1 =~ m/$re/) { print "\$str1 matched\n" } #if ($str2 =~ m/$re/) { print "\$str2 matched\n" }