I use an external programs to extract symbols from an object file. I need to do a perl script (or so seems it) which will replace stuff by other stuff in a binary file, the problem being the stuff part.

I call the external program which gives me the list of symbols to replace (and their replacements can be easily computed in the script). Those symbols may contains characters like . [ { ] } ( and others.

I've searched on the web for more than 10 hours straight, and haven't found a way of doing $SomeStuff =~ s/$match/$replace/g while having special characters in the $match variable. Nor there seems to be any other way of doing it. I don't even know if I can do it in Perl.

I'm exhausted and I want to sleep and be over with it :P. So please help me. Your karma will be rewarded.

Thanks in advance,
Hans :)

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