Re: Stupid question about strings...

The | character is a metacharacter, and if it exists in $str2, it is being interpreted as alternation. You probably want something like this:

if( $str1 =~ m/\Q$str2/gi ) { ...
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Dave

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Re^2: Stupid question about strings... by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jul 14, 2014 at 11:55 UTC
`if( $str1 =~ m/\Q$str2/gi ) { ...` The use of the `/g` modifier is meaningless in this context, although it does no harm.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Stupid question about strings... by kepler (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2014 at 08:45 UTC
Ok....I was being stupid..... Thank you very much for the help :) Kind regards, Kepler	[reply]
Re^3: Stupid question about strings... by davido (Cardinal) on Jul 14, 2014 at 16:18 UTC
Not stupid. It's an easy mistake to make. By the way; I like the index option mentioned later in the thread better if your search string is just a string and not a pattern. Dave	[reply]