I am having a problem maintaining some perl code. On ActivePerl on Windows, this bit of code works fine; on Solaris 10 5.6.1 it doesn't.

The code searches for terms in a file, and changes the color if it finds them. For example, to find the (C) string, I use
\( *[Cc] *\)
which should look for an opening parenthesis, any number of spaces, one case-insensitive C, any number of spaces, and a closing parenthesis.

In windows, it correctly highlights the first three characters of "(C)opyright", but it Solaris it finds multiple "C", not just in parenthesis. 

foreach $WORD in (@WORD_LIST) {
   $LINE =~ s/($WORD)/<font color=red><b><i>$1<\/i><\/b><\/font>/gi  &
+& $contains_word++;
}

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I can't figure out how Solaris is different. It only triggers on the "C", not the "(C)", making my output file much bigger than it should be. Thanks for the assistance. (substitution at paiged.fea.st)

In reply to Substitution Problem by david.paige

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