in reply to backslash in regex

The \Q disables pattern metacharacters until a \E is found, thus, if you wrote your regexp like: 
 if ( $dir =~ /^\Q$fav\E\\/ ) { # Note the \E after $fav!

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It will match the stuff you want...

Update: placed the \E at the wrong place...

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Re: Re: backslash in regex
by Pardus (Pilgrim) on Feb 02, 2003 at 11:00 UTC
     if ( $dir =~ /^\Q$fav\\\E/ ) { # Note the \E at the end! won't work -- the problem is under \Q modifier the backslash at the end matches wrong  if ( $dir =~ /^\Q$fav\E\\/ ) { works
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Re: Re: backslash in regex
by arc_of_descent (Hermit) on Feb 02, 2003 at 11:01 UTC
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