in reply to how to read in a line containing exponentials

Im not sure i understand your question correctly, but i think changing the line

 s/$oldline/$newline/;                        # doesn't work

to

 s/\Q$oldline\E/$newline/;

may help u here.

See quotemeta

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Re^2: how to read in a line containing exponentials
by pattobw (Novice) on Nov 06, 2010 at 16:37 UTC
    Thank you!! That worked perfectly.
    Also, Thanks for the link on quotemeta. I will print this out and put it in my notebook.

    Thanks again.

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