Hello esteemed monks, I am having trouble with a regex match on a string that contains a regex. I've not figured out how to match on it. This string appears in an HTML page:

document.write(this.location.href.replace(/\?resultof.*$/i, ''));

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I need to find and replace it with something else, but I can't seem to match all those regex characters as literals. I've tried replacing all the parens, question marks, etc.

  $j =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
  $j =~ s/\?/\\\?/g;
  $j =~ s/\$/\\\$/g;
  $j =~ s/\*/\\\*/g;
  $j =~ s/[.]/\\./g;
  $j =~ s/[)]/\\\)/g;
  $j =~ s/[(]/\\\(/g;

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any thoughts from the experts? thanks

In reply to matching a "regex" expression by slugger415

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