Re: newbie question about regex

[Maurice Lucas]

Hello,
I call my script with the following line
$ ./count.pl /var/log/file text
this works fine but sometimes the "text" is "foo(bar)" and then my
scripts
gives an error.
 syntax error near unexpected token `foo(b'
I believe the syntax error is from your shell and you can get around
this by quoting your string to search on...
$ ./count.pl /var/log/file 'foo(bar)'
Should do it.
Sometimes,...
even the most simple problems could take several hours to understand until 
you ask and somebody's gives th right answer,

Thanks everybody for the quick and right answer
With kind regards,
Maurice Lucas
TAOS-IT 

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