#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $escaping_file = $ARGV[0]; open( my $filehandle, "<" , "$escaping_file" ) || die "failed : $!"; while (<$filehandle>) { if ($_ =~ /^\$?\w+\$+\w+\$?$/g) { s/\$/\\\$/g ; #$escaped_wquotes = "".$_."" ; #$escaped_wquotes = "\"$_\"" ; $escaped_wquotes = qq("$_") ; print "$escaped_wquotes"; } }