Hi, At 1-10-2001 10:12 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote:
> > my $wordtodelete = "[Deletethis]; > >There's a quote missing at the end of this line. Sorry, typo in my email, not in the script. >Since your $wordtodelete may or may not include such "meta" >chars, the best way to do this is to use the \Q sequence in >your regex. This automatically escapes all following meta >chars in the regex, if any: > > /\Q$wordtodelete/ This is what I made of it : $phrase =~ s/\Q$wordtodelete//i; I also had to put an "i" at the end to make it case-insensitive. Thank you, this problem is solved. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]