Re: Escaping parentheses in regexps

Make use of the either quotemeta or the regex equivalent \Q (see. perlre for more info on \Q). So something like

if ($concat !~ /\Q$string/) {
   $concat .= " and $string";
}
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HTH

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Re: Re: Escaping parentheses in regexps by scain (Curate) on Jan 22, 2003 at 15:12 UTC
And, if you are putting other stuff in your regex that you don't want escaped, end the quotemeta with a \E, ie, `if ($concat !~ /other stuff\Q$string\E more other stuff/) { $concat .= " and $string"; }` [download] Scott Project coordinator of the Generic Model Organism Database Project	[reply] [d/l]