In addition to quotemeta, note also that if you want to match many strings against each line in a file, it's much more efficient to combine all the strings into a single pattern, so something like the following: 
my @strings = (
    'nnxx.yy2 = 234 abc',
    'foo bar = 39 baz *',
    ....
);

my $pattern = join '|',
    map { my $s = quotemeta; $s =~ s/(=\s*)\d+/$1\\d+/g; $s } @strings
+;

my $qr = qr/^($pattern)$/;

while (<>) {
    print if /$qr/;
}

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In the code above I only convert numbers into \d+ if preceded by '='. I've also added ^ and $ anchors to the pattern, which you may or may not want.

Dave.

In reply to Re: convert string into a match pattern by dave_the_m
in thread convert string into a match pattern by Anonymous Monk

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