Hi Monks,
I am having trouble with searching for a string with special characters.
When I have texts without 'brackets' in the SFile, I get the required result but it fails if I want to search for a string with 'brackets'. Could someone help me or point to some documentation? Thanks.
#! /path/to/perl
use strict;
open (MAINFILE, "./TestFile") or die "Can't find file";
open (SFILE, "./SFile") or die "Can't find file";
my $search;
while (<SFILE>) {
$search = $_;
print "search string is $search";
}
close ( SFILE );
print "Now opening the main file\n";
while (<MAINFILE>) {
if ( ! /$search/ ) { print "No Match found\n"; next; }
else { print "Found $search in main file"; }
}
TestFile:
Bus
Bus(Mini)
Car
Van
SFile:
Bus(Mini)
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