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How do I search strings with parenthisis
You have to quote $field or else the parentheses will act as metacharacters in the regex. Use if ($_ =~ /\Q$field\E/) instead.
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Re: Re: How do I search strings with parenthisis
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Anonymous Monk
on May 05, 2004 at 16:08 UTC
Thks that worked.
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