Hi Monks,

I have a bit more of a complicated regex which I am stuck with. User types in the string to be matched, e.g. toilet(32), and this should then be whacked into a regex to match to a variable.

I know the brackets are causing a problem, so the input string should go from /toilet(32)/ to this /toilet\(32\)/so the regex can function properly. Can anyone help me witha substitution regex to scan this string and prepend all non-complying characaters with "\".

Also, some of the strings will actually be some code, with the regex inside.e.g. 

$line = 'if($appliance =~ /toilet(32)/)';

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Should be: 
$line = 'if($appliance =~ /toilet\(32\)/)';

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If that makes sense :-) Cheers

In reply to Regex help by bingohighway

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