Hi,

I'm trying to match a regular expression that may contain a special char that I want it to be ignored. For example, suppose I am looking for the pattern 'aabb' and anywhere in the string I could have the special char \xFF.

So my string could be any of these:

$str = "a\xFFabb";
$str = "aa\xFFbb";
$str = "aabb\xFF";
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And I want the following code to match successfully:

if ($str =~ "aabb") {
  print "match found\n";
}
else {
  print "no match\n";
}
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Is there any way to tell Perl to ignore a certain special character when looking for a match?

I don't want to remove the special char from the string because later on I want to find this special char and use its position to insert other stuff into the string. So, this special char is used as a marker for future insertions.

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