Folks, I beg your indulgence but I've googled this, searched through your pages, asked colleagues till I'm blue in the face.

This HAS to be the easiest question ever asked and I apologise in advance.

I have a string "Kev.has.a.stupid.perl.question"

All I want to do is replace the full stops with backslash full stop so that I can pass it into an interpolated pax string.

I have tried
$text =~ s/\./\\./g;
but that gives me
'Kev\\.has\\.a\\.stupid\\.perl\\.question'
If I try
$text =~ s/\./\./g;
It gives me the text string I started with

What I want to end up with is
'Kev\.has\.a\.stupid\.perl\.question'.

It can't be that hard. can it?
Cheers
Kev

In reply to Incredibly stupid substitution question :( by viffer

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