Search and replace a string having special characters in a file using Perl

Question

Search and replace a string in a file using Perl. I have a .txt file. where i need to search and replace a string. i code i have is working fine for string not having special characters.but for the string containing special characters like (?,=,:: ) is not working with this code.

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Code i am using and expected results

Answer 1

Use Perl's built-in function quotemeta to escape all special characters in your search string. See https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/quotemeta.html