Monks, i have some question in regex. Today when i was doing simple clean up work in xml file, i got the following error. But i was surprised to see that i don't find any error in the code. When i enclosed that character class in the bracket, i am not getting any error. Below i have placed a part of the code and sample input string. This is the first time i am facing such error. Is it my mistake in the code or some other issue behind it? Could anyone explain where am i going wrong.

The error i am getting:

syntax error at D:\testing\pract.pl line 14, near "[^"
Execution of D:\testing\pract.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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use strict;
use warnings;

my %imlre = ('RE1' => ['RE1', 'body', 'measure', 'remove'], 'RE2' => [
+'RE2', 'jcode', '', 'remove']);

my $input = '<front>front matter comes here</front><body>bodymatter co
+mes here</body><back>back matter</back>';

for (keys %imlre)
{

    if ($imlre{$_}->[3] =~ /^remove$/i)
    {
        $input =~ s/<$imlre{$_}->[1][^>]*>//g ; #here getting error
        #$input =~ s/<$imlre{$_}->[1]([^>]*)>//g ; #here no error
    }
}

print $input;

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Prasad

In reply to Getting Error in character class - Regex by prasadbabu

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