Detect exact string value of scalar in regex matching

Question

Say I have $foo = "bar.baz"

I want to use the scalar $foo to find strings that contain "bar.baz" (anywhere in the string), but not the regex-evaluted version of $foo.

So the line: if( $other =~ m/$foo/ ) ... isn't working, because $foo is being evaluated such that the '.' is evaluated to any character. How do I stop that?

Answer 1

Pick one:

1. $foo = quotemeta("bar.baz");
2. if ($other =~ m/\\Q$foo/)

(Both are actually the same thing, just done at different times.)