Hello monks, I have a HUGE amount of text being read into a double quoted string but in my example below I greatly shortened it. I am having a devil of a time just simply extracting the currency from this string. Single quoted it works just fine but the interpolation issues I am getting with a double quoted string are throwing me into fits. I tried quotemeta but perhaps I am using it wrong. Has anyone encountered this before? I'd appreciate any help in the right directions. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$string="Price is $9.99 on our website";
($money) = $string =~ m/is\s\$([0-9]{1,2}\.[0-9]{2})\son/g;
print $money;

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In reply to Extracting money from a double quoted string by sherab

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