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Perl does not like if $other contains special characters
like * ] in the following

my @a=split/$other/,$req;


My current workaround is

$other=~ s/[\)\(\*]/_/g;
$req=~ s/[\)\(\*]/_/g;

before the split.

Any insight or better solution would be helpful

Thanks

Mr Wu Zong Ming

Z. M. Wu wrote:
> Perl does not like if $other contains special characters
> like * ] in the following
>
> my @a=split/$other/,$req;

No, they are special characters in regular expressions, and need to be
escaped.

> My current workaround is
>
> $other=~ s/[\)\(\*]/_/g;
> $req=~ s/[\)\(\*]/_/g;
>
> before the split.
>
> Any insight or better solution would be helpful

Better solution:

my @a = split /\Q$other/, $req;

See "perldoc perlre".

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