in reply to Re: Capturing occurrence counts via tr/// with variable interpolation
in thread Capturing occurrence counts via tr/// with variable interpolation

Better to just use \Q\E: 
$ans = eval "\$str =~ y/\Q$SrchStr\E//";

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