From: "Jason Rauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Say I have:
>
> foreach $string (@strings) {
> if ($text =~ /$string/) { ... }
> }
>
> Now, it happens that the data in $string contains \|()[{$^*.? etc.
> that turn into regex metacharacters within m// but I want to match
> them by their literal value, not as a regex pattern. That is, now Perl
> terminates the script because whenever $string happens to contain,
> say, a ( it interprets it as an unmatched parenthesis in a regex
> pattern when what I'd like to match is just \(.
>
> How to keep those characters from turning into regex patterns?
Maybe you should not be using regexps at all.See
perldoc -f index
HTH, Jenda
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