I'm suspecting because perl interprets @t within the string h@t as the array @t, since double quotes ("") will cause variables to be interpolated. Inserting both tests into a short script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

if ("h@" =~ /(\@)/ ) { print $1 }
if ("h@t" =~ /(\@)/ ) { print $1 }

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produces:

Possible unintended interpolation of @t in string at ./scratch.pl line
+ 6.
Global symbol "@t" requires explicit package name at ./scratch.pl line
+ 6.
Execution of ./scratch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Doing:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

if ('h@' =~ /(\@)/ ) { print $1 }
if ('h@t' =~ /(\@)/ ) { print $1 }

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produces:

@@

As expected. HTH.

In reply to Re: Matching @ in string by dwu
in thread Matching @ in string by loris

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