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[Stuart Poulin]

You could use \Q\E multiple times: \Q(foo)\E$bar\Q*foo\E

But like Jim's RE pointed out, I don't like to get fooled by things like extra
spaces and tabs.  So one thing I do once in a while is use the quotemeta()
function:

perl -e "print quotemeta q{something (I'm) trying to quote}"
(I'm on NT, if I was on Unix I'd suround it with single quotes.)

Then go through the output convert it to a RE by changing multiple "\ " to
"\s+", etc.  Then I stuff in the ${variables} where I want them.

--- "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin at daft.com> wrote:
> Jay Scherrer, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >I had tried every other possible solution from using [string] and "string"
> for
> >that line. Yep it was was those pesky ()'s that did it.
> 
> Remember that rather than special casing the []'s, use \Q...\E, they are
> most definitely your friends.  About the only real problem with them are
> that you can't have a literal $ or @ in there.  Oops.
> 
> Darren
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