in reply to Problem with input strings that have "[]" brackets

You need quotemeta for () 
my $pattern = quotemeta 'Category("notestrecord")';

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Re^2: Problem with input strings that have "[]" brackets
by Laszlo (Novice) on May 08, 2015 at 17:45 UTC
    Yes it worked!
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