Literal Match

A regex can look for a fixed piece of text inside a scalar.

literal_match.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = ;
my $has_regex = $text =~ /regex/;
my $result = $has_regex ? "found" : "missing";

print "text=$text\n";
print "result=$result\n";

use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = ;
my $has_regex = $text =~ /regex/;
my $result = $has_regex ? "found" : "missing";

print "text=$text\n";
print "result=$result\n";

use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = ;
my $has_regex = $text =~ /regex/;
my $result = $has_regex ? "found" : "missing";

print "text=$text\n";
print "result=$result\n";

literal match A literal match searches for the exact characters written in the pattern.