Re: Regex can't find match

quotemeta

$find=quotemeta '<a href="/cgi-bin/ruling?candy=265-23&path=/rules/oth
+er/265-23&file_num=265-23&action=Show_Form" class="subCat9">Click to 
+submit</a>';
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Re^2: Regex can't find match by sherab (Scribe) on Apr 07, 2014 at 19:08 UTC
OMG toolic, you have saved me so much trouble. Thank you very much. Now to get familiar with quotemeta.	[reply]
Re^3: Regex can't find match by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Apr 07, 2014 at 20:05 UTC
Specifically, the `?` quantifier regex metacharacter. See Quantifiers in perlre. Instead of quotemeta, you could also use `$text=~s/\Q$find\E/$replace/g;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]