Use \E to stop the quoting.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Kister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:01 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: regex quoting perldoc -q quote talks about \Q before a regex to escape special characters. how do you use \Q when you want to anchor the regex with a dollar sign ? my $string = my $regex = "foo"; print "match\n" if($string =~ /^\Q${regex}$/); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
