Jeremy Kister wrote:
> 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${regex}$/);
print "match\n" if $string =~ /^\Q$regex\E$/;
John
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