I'm doing a Perl script to replace 5.2 deprecated PHP functions like split.
I'm hitting a problem when it comes to replace something like
 split('/',$string)
to
preg_split('/\//',$string)

so far I came with this regex:

s/[^_]split\s*?\(\s*?(["'])((?:\\?.)*?)\1/preg_split($1\/$2\/$1/g

but this obviously doesn't work if the regex contains the forward slash character.
I also tried this:

s/[^_]split\s*?\(\s*?(["'])((?:\\?.)*?)\1/preg_split($1\/\Q$2\E\/$1/g

which escapes too many things as it escapes every meta characters.


Any secret escape sequence code that only escape forward slashes?
Any idea?

In reply to regex escaping forward slash in regex by gilemon

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