On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:42 -0500, Gu, Han wrote:
> Hi,
> Still very noob when it comes to perl. Just have a quick question. I am
> trying to match a string that is window's path
>
> Sample,
>
> $s1 = "c:\\log\s1.log";
>
> $s2 = $s1;
>
> If ($s1 =~ m/$s2/i) {
> print "matched\n";
> }
>
> It just wouldn't match. I can put the actual string into m//i, which would
> work, but I have to make it work with variable, since I'll be reading in the
> actual string from a file.
>
> Greatly appreciate any answer I get.
>
> Thx
>
> Han
To match non-alphanumeric characters in a string, you need to quotemeta
it.
if( $s1 =~ m/\Q$s2\E/i ){
# ...
Or
my $s2 = quotemeta( $s1 );
if( $s1 =~ m/$s2/i ){
# ...
See:
perldoc quotemeta
perldoc perlretut
perldoc prelre
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