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Mystik gotan wrote:
Maybe you should use a foreach loop spitting every character and then parsing the \ in front of it?
Sincerly,
Bob Erinkveld
(Webmaster Insane Hosts)
www.insane-hosts.net
From: "Jason Rauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Characters instead of regex patterns
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:45:40 +0000
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?
Thanks,
Jason
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