Regex against a scalar

From: Perl (Perl_at_nyclimits.org)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:41:31 -0800
To: "Beginner Perl" <beginners@perl.org>

Hi.

I would like to search a scalar variable and have the output to another
scalar. For example:

$test = "This is some test data";

I want another scalar, $regex to hold the output of a regular expression
lookup against $test.

So something like this:

$regex =~ /test/ running against $test. Is this possible somehow?

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