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$chord[$RIGHT_DELIMITER] is being accessed as an array, try ${chord}[$RIGHT_DELIMITER]
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(tye)Re: s/$foo// selective interpolation?
by tye (Sage) on May 15, 2001 at 19:52 UTC

    Good catch! Better still: s/[$LEFT_DELIMITER]\Q$chord\E[$RIGHT_DELIMITER]//g

    Update: After testing, I'd actually rewrite this as: 

    $LEFT_DELIMITER = '{[';
$RIGHT_DELIMITER = '}]';

$tempstr = 'This is a string containing [Am]brackets.';
$chord = 'Am';

$tempstr =~ s/[\Q$LEFT_DELIMITER\E]\Q$chord\E[\Q$RIGHT_DELIMITER\E]//;
print $tempstr;

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    (note the lack of \ in the delimiter strings).

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      With the stipulation that you don't want $chord to possibly contain regexp info, very true.
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