If you have a string that is going to need escaping, consider using /\Q$string\U/ to handle quoting regex special chars.
Right -- but that should be \E (for "end") instead of \U (the mnemonic for which is "uppercase", not "unquote").
% perl -le 'print "\Qxxx\Uyyy"'
xxxYYY-- Steve
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