Re^2: Perl regex question

It may be better to treat the words literally rather than as patterns:

my $joined_targets = join "|", map { quotemeta } @target_words;
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Re^3: Perl regex question by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 09, 2009 at 01:33 UTC
As often as not, treating the strings as patterns is more sensible than treating them as literals. It depends on what the programmer wants to accomplish with a particular app, so the programmer should make this a deliberate choice for each app.	[reply]