In the string if there is no closing ")" and has "(" then, how to escape ')' in the string while substitution.
fg-(we.xml
#!/usr/bin/perl while($line=<DATA>){ $Name_pre=$line; $Name=$line; $Name=~ s/&amp;amp;/-/g; $Name=~ s/&amp;/-/g; $Name =~ s/-$//g; $Name_pre=~ s/$Name_pre/$Name/g; print "The name is $Name_pre\n"; } __DATA__ fg-&amp;amp;&amp;+(and(we-
The substitution is not performed on the above code.Can you please tell me how to resolve this

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