Hi Monks,
I have a problem with the following code: 
my ($path,$version);

$path = "/a/b/version1/c/d";
$version = "version1";
$path =~ s/$version.*/$version/s;
print($path."\n");

$path = "/some/path/3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0/a/b/c";
$version = "3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0";
$path =~ s/$version.*/$version/s;
print($path."\n");

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Basiclly I have a path and I need to remove everything after the version.
In that first case the version is version1 so it returns /a/b/version1.
But in the second case, the version is 3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0 and it still returns /some/path/3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0/a/b/c. I do understand why it happens - there are special chars in the $version and the code treats them as regex.
After some reasrch, I came across with quotemeta. But it escapes the path: 
my ($path,$version);

$path = "/a/b/version1/c/d";
$version = quotemeta("version1");
$path =~ s/$version.*/$version/s;
print($path."\n");

$path = "/some/path/3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0/a/b/c";
$version = quotemeta("3.5.2+tcl-tk-8.5.18+sqlite-3.10.0");
$path =~ s/$version.*/$version/s;
print($path."\n");

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Result: 
/a/b/version1
/some/path/3\.5\.2\+tcl\-tk\-8\.5\.18\+sqlite\-3\.10\.0

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How it can be acheived without escapeing the special chars? How to remove everything after the most neasted $version?

In reply to How to remove everything after last occurrence of a string? by ovedpo15

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