my $nobrackets = qr/[^\{^\}]+/;

A peripheral problem, but please take another look at choroba's second point above. Please see Character Classes and other Special Escapes in perlre, also discussions of character classes in Using character classes in perlrequick, and more extensively Using character classes in perlretut.

In reply to Re^3: Regex - Is there any way to control when the contents of a variable are interpolated? (Using "$1" and '$1' in regex replacements) by AnomalousMonk
in thread Regex - Is there any way to control when the contents of a variable are interpolated? (Using "$1" and '$1' in regex replacements) by JDoolin

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