RE: Regex Problem!!- SOS

Thanks a lot Dave!!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gray [mailto:david_gray@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:45 PM
To: beginners@xxxxxxxx
Cc: Shishir K. Singh
Subject: RE: Regex Problem!!- SOS


> if ($var =~ /^$var1/) {

 if($var =~ /^\Q$var1\E/) {

Should solve your problem -- the \Q and \E tell the regex to stop (and
start again) interpolating any regex characters it finds in the
variable.

HTH,

 -dave