Hi all. I think I'm missing something simple but I just can't see it.

I am trying to split a string on markers that I don't want to hard-code. My patterns aren't behaving - here's a simple stub of what is throwing me. 

use strict;

my $patt1 = '!!';
my $patt2 = '++';

my $string = 'hello!!there++everyone!!in the web';

if ( $string =~ m{$patt1} ) {
    print "Matches patt1\n";
}
if ( $string =~ m{\Q $patt2 \E}x ) {
    print "Matches patt2 with /x\n";
}
if ( $string =~ m{\Q$patt2\E} ) {
    print "Matches patt2\n";
}

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I would have thought this would have matched all 3 times but the /x modifier doesn't match it. Does the \Q\E make the spaces significant?

Can someone see why?

Thanks!

In reply to /x modifier with \Q and \E by wardy3

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