Hi,

I have written a perl program that grabs text patterns like so:-

if ($rpt[$ln] =~ /^\sStartpoint/ {
     @ptlalsp = split(/\s+/,$rpt[$ln]);
     $ptsp = $ptlalsp[2];               #get name
     do {
          $ln++;
     } until ($rpt[$ln] =~ /$ptsp/);    #name will show up
                                        #again...increment
                                        #$ln until found
     #other stuff...
}

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...but every so often $ptsp possesses a [ or ], which messes up my pattern matching. How do I treat [ and ] as literal characters and not special characters?

Thanks,
-Fiddler42

In reply to How to deal with [ and ] chars by Anonymous Monk

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