Yup, there are ways to improve:

• Leave out the {1}, this is totally redundant, everything is matched exactly once unless you specify otherwise. This leaves us with: /^ween\s*\{\s*(.*\;)\s*\}$/
• You don't have to escape { unless it is ambigous. And no need to escape ; so: /^ween\s*{\s*(.*;)\s*}$/
• Metacharacters loose their special meaning in a character class, so no need to escape them there. With the exception of the closing square bracket and the forward slash (used as delimiter):

  $cmd =~ /[.!+=[\]*<>$%@?&:\/\\{}]/g
  
  # also possible but I prefer the alternative above
  $cmd =~ /[].!+=[*<>$%@?&:\/\\{}]/g
  [download]

• You can use different delimiters (then it's no longer necessary to escape the forward slash) but then can no longer leave out the m// of the pattern match operator. The /g modifier is useless, too, it's enough to know if the pattern matched or not: $cmd =~ m#[.!+=[\]*<>$%@?&:/\\{}]#

-- Hofmator

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