G'day roho,

I see you've got a solution using quotemeta. Here's some additional information.

A '\C' used to match a single byte. Last documented in "perlrebackslash v5.22.4: All the sequences and escapes".

It was removed in v5.24 according to "perl5240delta: The /\C/ character class has been removed."; however, although documented as such, [perl #41916] indicates this didn't happen until v5.26.

Use of '\C' is now fatal in regexes (as you've found out) and gives a warning in strings: 

$ perl -wE 'say "p" =~ /\C0/ ? "Y" : "N"'
\C no longer supported in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\ <-- HERE C0
+/ at -e line 1.

$ perl -wE 'say "\C0"'
Unrecognized escape \C passed through at -e line 1.
C0

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Probably also worth a mention is the lowercase '\c'.

It's documented, with a fair amount of detail, in "perlop: Quote and Quote-like Operators: Note 5".

Some restrictions on its use were introduced in v5.20 — see "perl5200delta: Quote-like escape changes".

Depending on what character follows '\c', you may get a warning with useful information. 

$ perl -wE 'say "\c0"'
"\c0" is more clearly written simply as "p" at -e line 1.
p

$ perl -wE 'say "p" =~ /\c0/ ? "Y" : "N"'
"\c0" is more clearly written simply as "p" in regex; marked by <-- HE
+RE in m/\c0 <-- HERE / at -e line 1.
Y

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[I used Perl v5.36 for all of the example code above.]

— Ken

In reply to Re: Unexpected Error: \C no longer supported in regex by kcott
in thread Unexpected Error: \C no longer supported in regex by roho

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