You'll need to escape the meta-characters in
$comm e.g
## note the \Q before $comm
if(($line eq $comm) || ($line =~ /\Q$comm/)){
print"Line $i: $comm";
}
And it looks like a simple
index would be better suited in this situation since you're just testing to see whether
$comm is in
$line e.g
if(($line eq $comm) || (index($line, $comm) > -1)){
print"Line $i: $comm";
}
See.
perlre and
quotemeta for more info on escaping regex meta-characters and
perldiag for a more detailed explanation of your error.
HTH
_________
broquaint
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