Slashes and hashes in Perl and metacharacters

Question

Thanks for the previous assistance everyone!. I have a query regarding RegExp in Perl

My issue is..

I know, when matching you can write m// or // or ## (mus

Answer 1

The regex match-operator allows to define i a custom non-whitespace-character as seperator.

In your first example the '#' is used as seperator. So in this regex you don't need to escape the '/' because it hase no special meaning. In the second regex, the seperator char isn't changed. So the default '/' is used. Now you have to escape all '/' in your pattern. Otherwise the parser is confused. :)