On Wednesday 24 September 2003 10:54, Pandey Rajeev-A19514 wrote : I have a question regarding matching strings that have : embeded perl special characters. ... : Can some one tell me an easy way to do ?
Have a look at \Q and \E. They're both listed in perldoc perlre under the main "Regular Expressions" heading. m/\Q.*\E./ matches the literal string .*, followed by any character. Cheers, Damon -- Damon Allen Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A UNIX life is hard." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]