Hi all.
Everyone has been so helpful with my other questions, I thought I would put
out another one.
I'm writing a script that searches through an array of hashes. One of the
possible fields in the hash is "Comments" and sometimes the comments have
characters such as ? or * in them. Right now, my search line looks like this
if ($myhash{$searchVar} =~ /$value/i) {
do stuff;
}
which works fine for regular text, but chokes up if $value is something like
** due to the matching. I know backslashes would help if I knew in advance
it would be **, but the user sets the $value variable on the fly. Is there
an easy way to get around this problem? TIA
janet
