Re: Regex problem

You may try to use \Q metacharacter to disable other metacharacters which can occure in $manuID variable and affect to matching

    if ( $manuCode =~ /\Q$manuID/ ) {
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Re^2: Regex problem by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2008 at 20:13 UTC
I had tried that before and I tried it again and it doesn't help, the codes are only 3 alphanumeric characters. Also i noticed in my code I forgot to add a line. I did a substitute to remove newlines and tabs from the variables with the csv.	[reply]