Re^2: Substring Syntax Check

/ has a special meaning in regular expressions

No, it doesn't.

$ perl -le'
$_ = "one/two/three/four";
print m,/, ? "true" : "false";
$re = "/";
print $_ =~ $re ? "true" : "false";
'
true
true
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Only ?, *, +, [, {, (, ), | and . have special meaning in a regular expression.

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Re^3: Substring Syntax Check by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 27, 2008 at 03:55 UTC
ack, the post originally said `\|` was special, cause I thought the OP said `\|`. I fixed the post rather blindly. True, `/` is only special if `/` is the delimiter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Substring Syntax Check by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2008 at 04:29 UTC
That hood sometimes gets in the way :)	[reply]