Re: Another (maybe stupid) regex question ...

You need to escape the relevant characters - luckily you don't have to roll your own escaper, just use \Q and \E -

$text2 =~ s/(\Q$text1\E)/FOO$1BAR/;
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BTW you describe one thing (replace small text), but then do another (put FOO and BAR on either side of small text) - did you mean /FOOBAR/ or /FOO$1BAR/?

ABTW I'm not convinced there are any stupid questions, just stupid answers (plus a lot of inquisitive idiots ;)

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

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[OT] "stupid" questions (was Re: Another (maybe stupid) regex question ...) by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 18, 2003 at 01:09 UTC
ABTW I'm not convinced there are any stupid questions This depends on what you mean by "stupid". (The word is used in so many different ways...) There are certainly such things as uninformed questions. Most "normal" questions could be considered in this category (as opposed to didactic and rhetorical questions, though those can sometimes be uninformed as well, but that's another topic). Also there are questions that don't lead directly to the answer that is desired (though often they lead to other questions that may get there eventually). Then there are questions raised only to cause trouble, not out of any desire to learn. Any of could be considered "stupid" in one sense or another of that term, though only the last category ought perhaps not to be asked. `$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: [OT] "stupid" questions (was Re: Another (maybe stupid) regex question ...) by Melly (Chaplain) on Nov 18, 2003 at 12:39 UTC
Heh - or to put it another way, there aren't any smart questions... Either you ask a question because you don't know the answer - how dumb can that be? - or you ask a question when you already know the answer - even dumber - or you ask a question to provoke and annoy - back of the class for you.... Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply]