Good day Monks. I am trying to detect duplicate rows in an array by looking at one element, which is a string. The relevant bit of code is:
if ($items[$i][3] =~ /\b$lastitem[3]\b/) {
     print "DUPLICATE\n";
     $dupcount++;
}

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Problem is, if the match variable contains a regexp special character, like $, it doesn't match. I need to get it to interpret the variable-substituted string literally.

Some kind monks helped me out with a similar problem on the replace side of a substitute statement in this thread, but I can't seem to make the same technique work in the above case. Anyone know how I can solve this problem?

Many thanks

Steve

In reply to Regexp variable substitution problem in match by cormanaz

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