Re: How to substitute a string containing "\" with same string in quotes.

$string =~ s/\Q$substring\E/\"$substring\"/gi;
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\Q..\E uses quotemeta to convert the substring into a regexp pattern that matches the substring.

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Re^2: How to substitute a string containing "\" with same string in quotes. by Anonymous Monk on Oct 24, 2008 at 09:53 UTC
There is no real need to escape the quotes :) `$string = 'a b c la la a b c la la'; $substring = 'b c'; $string =~ s/\Q$substring\E/"$substring"/gi; print $string; __END__ a "b c" la la a "b c" la la` [download]	[reply] [d/l]