Joel Gwynn wrote:
> my $string = "abc";
> my $match = "ab(c";
>
> if($string =~ m/$match/){ print "MATCH!\n"; }
>
> This leads me to consider the many other characters that would need
> escaping.
If $match is always going to be treated as a plain string, and that's
the extent of your RE, then perhaps you don't need to use an RE match at
all. Consider simply doing:
if ($string eq $match) {print "MATCH!\n";}
or if a sub-string match is desired:
if (index($string,$match) != -1) {print "MATCH!\n";}
which is faster than an RE too, but less readable, so I wouldn't
generally recommend it.
-Tom
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