Re: s/$foo/$bar/ when $foo has metacharacters in it

You can use quotemeta, either as a function, or as \Q...\E (update: Relashed my slashes, thanks ikegami):

$b = quotemeta $b;
$a =~ s/$b/$c/g;

#or

$a =~ s/\Q$b/$c/g; # \E not needed at end of pattern
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Re^2: s/$foo/$bar/ when $foo has metacharacters in it by bcrowell2 (Friar) on Dec 20, 2007 at 22:46 UTC
Excellent -- thanks!	[reply]