Re: Elegant way to escape a string in a regex

I would not use regex for replacing fixed strings like this but rather substr. That means that this problem of avoiding interpolation etc. just vanishes. As a bonus it should usually be faster too.

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Re^2: Elegant way to escape a string in a regex by bliako (Abbot) on Apr 14, 2025 at 22:31 UTC
good idea, it suits me fine and eliminates all problems, thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: Elegant way to escape a string in a regex by LanX (Saint) on Apr 14, 2025 at 23:34 UTC
If you use fixed templates, maybe consider `sprintf` or - depending on the number of templates - just variable interpolation. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^2: Elegant way to escape a string in a regex by Anonymous Monk on Apr 15, 2025 at 19:44 UTC
The only way I can think of is with using `index()` to find the position of the string to replace: `my $template = 'aaa <%xx%> bbb'; my $repl = substr $template, index($template, '<%xx%>'), length('<%xx% +>'), '//div[@id="abc"]'; print $template; # aaa //div[@id="abc"] bbb` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]