On Jun 13, Carl Rogers said:
>Good afternoon;
>I have a dumb question: I'm working with the following:
>
>$line = "Joe Doe 123 Main St. Sometown, USA";
>
>I have parsed the line to assign the values to the following variables:
>
>$fname = "Joe";
>$lname = "Doe";
>$addr = "123 Main St.";
>
>I'm trying to use the substitution operator to do something like:
>
> $line =~ s/$fname $lname $addr//; ## doesn't like this syntax
>
>So the value of $line now becomes "Sometown, USA".
It does work, with the data you've given us. It doesn't work with the
data you have. Use the \Q...\E escape sequences so that regex-specific
characters are treated as literal characters:
$line =~ s/\Q$fname $lname $addr\E//;
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