[Pdx-pm] Escaping a character in a string from a file
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed May 12 15:20:55 CDT 2004
>>>>> "John" == John <jgoalby at hotmail.com> writes:
John> I have a file of regular expressions I want to match. I read in the file
John> and then match each entry as such:
John> if ($something =~ /$tomatch/i)
John> I want to be able to specify something like ".pl" in the file so that I can
John> match all perl files. Specifying .pl matches .apl. Is there a way I can
John> escape the "." when it is in a file? I tried "\.pl", but it didn't work.
Uh, that should have, with the code you have above. Can you show
an example of it not working?
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