In this narrowed down regex case, each line produces an ERR.

I cannot spot the error. Can you?

Just to be clear, the dollar sign could be one or more other special chars, not just a single dollar sign

my $line1 = 'I:\$AVG';            # Should NOT be okay.
my $line2 = 'I:\$AVG\hello.log';  # Should NOT be okay.

my $skip = '$AVG';
    #------------------------------------------------
    if ($line1 =~ m!\b\Q$skip\E\b!i) {
        print __LINE__." Line 1 Okay!\n";
    } else {
        print __LINE__." Line 1 ERR! $line1 did not match  $skip\n";
    }
    if ($line2 =~ m!\b\Q$skip\E\b!i) {
        print __LINE__." Line 2 Okay!\n";
    } else {
        print __LINE__." Line 2 ERR! $line2 did not match  $skip\n";
    }

__END__
14 Line 1 ERR! I:\$AVG did not match  $AVG
19 Line 2 ERR! I:\$AVG\hello.log did not match  $AVG

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In reply to regex not matching special char by mnooning

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