in reply to Re^2: replacing "\L" character in strings
in thread replacing "\L" character in strings

As you don't show any code, it's hard to tell you what you really mean. Maybe you want to use quotemeta respectively \Q in your regular expression, to prevent interpolation of regex-meta-characters? See perlre and/or perlop.

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Re^4: replacing "\L" character in strings
by ananthbv (Initiate) on Jul 25, 2010 at 22:09 UTC
    Thanks a lot Corion. I used the quotemeta function to escape the metacharacters. this is working fine for me.