SPUG: Metacharacters in variables in regular expressions
Jacinta Richardson
jarich at perltraining.com.au
Mon Jan 12 15:42:54 PST 2009
Christopher Howard wrote:
> I wanted to do something like this:
>
> my $answer = <>;
> chomp $answer;
> if($some_earlier_var =~ /$answer/) { ### destroy the universe ### }
>
> But I need $answer to be 'safe', so the metacharacters aren't
> interpreted as such in the regex. What is the best thing to do here, then?
> So this is what I want, right?:
>
> if($some_earlier_var =~ /\Q$answer\E/) { ### destroy the universe ### }
Yes, that's exactly what you want.
J
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