Hi monks

I'm matching strings (single words) contained in the array called @tokens against other strings (single words->stopwords) contained in the array called @stopords with the purpose of finding out if my strings (words) are present in the array, thus they are stopwords and I can discard them from the process. It is simple like that:

foreach my $token (@tokens) {
 if (grep /$token/i, @stopwords) {
  print "Stopword $token discarded\n";
 }
 else {
  print "$token is okay\n";
 }
}

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For some items in @tokens I get the following error message: An error occurred (Unmatched ) in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/b) <-- HERE / at script.pm line 22

I guess it has to do with having meta characters in $token. But I don't know how to solve it in my example. Any suggestion will be appreciated

In reply to grep unmatch error by Anonymous Monk

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