in reply to matching a variable containing metacharacter treated as character

Use \Q: 
grep /\Q$var/, @foos;

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Re^2: matching a variable containing metacharacter treated as character
by docdurdee (Scribe) on Feb 21, 2013 at 16:47 UTC
    Thank you!
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