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

If you are not use slashes, the recommend practice is to use the curly braces and the /x modifier.

$date=~ s{ (\d+) \/ (\d+) \/ (\d+) }{$1/$2/$3}x;

Escaping the non-alphanumerics is also a standard even if they are not meta-characters. See perldoc -f quotemeta.