I have an array of regexps quoted in single quotes:    @a = ('hello(\w+)', ...); and I have a scalar value that I want to compare against all the regexps to see if it matches one of them:

   $a = "Hello(world)";
   $b = shift(@a);

   if ($a =~ /$b/o)
   {
       print "Matched!\n";
   }
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Never can get it to match.

So then I tried modifying my array as follows:    @a = ('hello\((\w+)\)', ...); And tried again to no avail. Help...

Added code tags - dvergin 2002-03-10