perl regex escape characters

Question

I have heard perl is a good language at doing regex but i am a bit confused at the characters that requires escaping

I tested the code on http://regexlib.com/RETeste

Answer 1

You can choose use ! instead of / to surround your regular expression so that you don't have to escape the /.

m!//home/dev/((.*?)/[^/]+).*#!

should work. Here's it in action: http://ideone.com/TDrBG