Escaping special characters in Perl regex
问题 I'm trying to match a regular expression in Perl. My code looks like the following: my $source = "Hello_[version]; Goodbye_[version]"; my $pattern = "Hello_[version]"; if ($source =~ m/$pattern/) { print "Match found!" } The problem arises in that brackets indicate a character class (or so I read) when Perl tries to match the regex, and the match ends up failing. I know that I can escape the brackets with \[ or \] , but that would require another block of code to go through the string and