Normally lets say I want to replace "." with "/" its fairly easy for me. All I do is s/\./\//g, but now I have a problem. I have a script which has 2 inputs. First a text file name, and second the replacement character. So user will give

./replace.pl -file="file_name" -character="Some string"
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Its working fine, but as soon as the user gives a character like ".", it breaks. Any simple workaround