[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Quoting "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Can some please advise how to get this to work?
>>>
>>> print "matches" if $string =~ m/$pattern/;
>>
>> You probably have regex meta-characters in $pattern that need to be
>> escaped.
>
> I print $pattern and it is D:\STUDY\PERL\MYFTP\. You are probably that
> there are
> some meta-characters, \ :, that I need to escape, but how do I escape
> them if
> they are variables?
print "matches" if $string =~ m/\Q$pattern\E/;
John
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