hello, i am fairly new to perl and am experienceing difficulty completely a regular expression, that, when applied to a line of perl source, will extract all variables and store them in an array. the basic regex i have is as follows: "@variables=m/\$[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/g" however this expression fails to deliver when it encounters an escaped dollar sign in code..such as 'print "i made \$1.00 today"' (the regex would add '$1' to @variables). i am not sure how negation works in regexs, and was wondering if someone could assist me in writing a regular expression that would place do what mine does but DOESNT place the variable name in the array if it starts with \$. thank you in advance, cghost23

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