Thanks Adriano! That worked, so basicly what the \Q \E is doing is searching for non-word characters from the beginning of the line and then stops after the "E$" in my variable?
Thanks again for your help!! Tim -----Original Message----- From: Adriano Rodrigues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:23 AM To: Tim Wolak; beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: two questions On 11/13/06, Tim Wolak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have changed it to: > > if ($grp =~ /E\$/) { > $grp = "E\$"; > } > This however still does not grab the "E$" from the file, I have done it > several ways to try and get it to work. You have problems because of the interpolation at the /$grp/ expression. Try /\Q$grp\E/, that will going quote all special characters (including $) so that you can search for literal $. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
