More woe: apologies in advance. I'm working with a text file which represents a foreign language with accents by putting slashes (acute accent), backslashes (grave), and parentheses (aspirants) after the vowel they should sit on top of. This is cool because it means you can properly represent a language in an ASCII format. However, it's giving me hell in regexes.
Take the word "ai(=ma" (haema-, blood). I'd like to use a regex to match the stem, "ai(=m-", to, say, the genitive singular,
"ai(=matos". Should be simple:
if ($word =~ m/^$stem/) {blah;}
but everything keeps bumming out because of the special keys, which I
don't want to be read as special keys (except the caret at the start). How can I keep my caret, and then have all /, \, ( and ) characters taken at face value?
