On 07/28/2006 03:01 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:
perldoc -q quote talks about \Q before a regex to escape special
characters.
how do you use \Q when you want to anchor the regex with a dollar sign ?
my $string = my $regex = "foo";
print "match\n" if($string =~ /^\Q${regex}$/);
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