You are failing to escape the parenthesis, so they are carrying their structural meaning rather than being treated as plain old anchor text in the pattern. Simalarly the + is a quantifier; it carries meaning as well. Try this:

s/& \(0\+255\)//;

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Here's an example:

my $have = q{clrf    __pbssCOMRAM& (0+255),c};
my $want = q{clrf    __pbssCOMRAM,c};

$have =~ s/& \(0\+255\)//;

print "$have\n$want\n";
print "They ", ($have eq $want ? '' : "don't "), "match\n";

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If you want to figure out how to use regular expressions with Perl, perlretut and perlrequick are good starting points.

Another strategy is to tell Perl that what follows should have any "special characters" escaped automatically: 

s/\Q& (0+255)//;

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The \Q feature is documented in quotemeta.


Dave

In reply to Re: Arguments to substitution question by davido
in thread Arguments to substitution question by rich.wilder

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