>Hi All -
>This script:
>use strict;
>use warnings;
>my $string = 'I love c++';
>my $compare = 'some compare string';
>if ($compare =~ /$string/) {
> print "$compare contains $string\n";
>} else {
> print "$compare does not contain $string\n";
>}
>gives this error:
>Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/I love c++ <-- HERE /
>at t.pl line 6.
>It's the '+'s. I've tried escaping them '\+' but then
>the regex matches on '\+'. I don't understand what is
>happening.
>This is occuring in a script that's manipulating
>files; file names with '+'s fail on this error. Is there any
>way I can fix this before I fall back to substrings and
>'eq'/'ne' compares (ugh).
>Aloha => Beau;
See if this works
if ($compare =~ /\Q$string\E/) {
Shishir
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