Greetings monks,

It's late, I'm tired, and I must be missing the obvious. I need another pair of eyes to see what I've overlooked. The code sample below tests a file name against a regex containing the same file name. The first test uses forward slashes (and works as expected). The second test uses backslashes and does not work.

Please note: I have tried escaping the backslashes, but it still fails. I have tried running the regex through the "qr()" function, but it still fails. What am I missing here? TIA for any help you can provide. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

# WORKS
my $file  = 'C:/tmp';
my $regex = 'C:/tmp';
if ($file =~ m/$regex/i) {
    print "\nTest with forward slashes -- If stmt is true...\n";
}

# FAILS
$file  = 'C:\tmp';
$regex = 'C:\tmp';
if ($file =~ m/$regex/i) {
    print "\nTest with backslashes -- If stmt is true...\n";
}

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