in reply to Normal regexes stop working

I think its because regular expressions have syntax of their own, and it seems you want to use eq 
die if 'stu\d' =~ /stu\d/;
die if 'stu\d' =~ 'stu\d';
die if 'stu\d' =~ /\Qstu\d\E/;
__END__
Died at - line 3.

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Re^2: Normal regexes stop working
by yegg (Acolyte) on Oct 24, 2010 at 17:14 UTC
    I made this case simple, but in the general case I'm actually doing this: 
    my $q_meta = quotemeta($q);
my $tmp_test = ($test =~ /$q_meta/i) || 0;

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    So it should escape all those special characters.
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