Hi! I'm making a text replace and my text to search includes a metacharacter (. The text to be searched has been stored in a scalar for example $search. The text where the search will be made has been stored for example in a scalar $text. Here is what I'm doing:
$search = "for example (this)"; $text = "looking for example (this)"; $toBeReplaced = "that"; $text =~ s|$search|$toBeReplaced|; That doesn't work, if you make it this way: $text =~ s|for example \(this\)|$toBeReplaced|; works fine, but how can I backslash the metacharacters in a scalar? Petri Rautakoski -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
