Take a look at perlre for more info and the opportunity to learn, but basically you'll either have to escape them using backslashes or use \Q \E to contain your $Name_pre string, though as pointed out above, why are you assigning the value in such an odd way?

you could substitute all ( in a string with the regex $string =~ s/\(/$cheesesauce/g;

Oh Goddess, look this code needs a lot of work, take a look at the following 

open($FH,'<','file.txt');
$arr[$i]=join('',(<$FH>));
close ($FH);
$arr[i] =~ /<cc>([\s\S]+?)<\/cc>/$1/;
$arr[i] =~ s/&amp;amp;/-/g;
$arr[i] =~ s/&amp;/-/g;
$arr[i] =~ s/\(/-/g; # I assume
$arr[i] =~ s/-$//;
if (substr($arr[i],-1,1) eq '-') {
   $arr[i]=~ s/-$//g; # I assume you meant, though you've already done
+ it above
}

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I'm sure it's far from perfect, but an improvement on your current code nonetheless

In reply to Re^3: Substitution for braces by Utilitarian
in thread Substitution for braces by gem555

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