The solution that will substitute $line the way it is assigned in your example would be:
$line =~ s/\Q$line/country/;

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and as your code is precisely written you could even drop the \Q! But many responders are (quite reasonably in my opinion) doubting that this is the solution you want. Such respondents might reasonably think that you mean to say you have a string that does contain the backslash just before you want to substitute it - "if the backslash weren't there you wouldn't have a problem in the first place," they might conclude.

It appears to me that we need convincing one way or another whether the real problem string you are presented with has a backslash in it or not.

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In reply to Re: Regex doubt by anonymized user 468275
in thread Regex doubt by kprasanna_79

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