Perl Regular Expression - Special Characters in Dynamic Regex

Simple question (I hope)

I have a dynamic string which contains symbols: ?, /, etc Basically it's URL string in a log line in my apache error file

I am parsing my log file, I wa开发者_如何转开发nt to see if a certain instance of a url exists in the line:

URL line to search for: "http://www.foo.com?blah"

The question mark throws me off, as with any special characters in regex's. I'm trying the following:

my $test1 = 'my?test';
my $test2 = 'this is a my?test blah test';

if ($test2 =~ /$test1/)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }

This prints NOOOO

my $test1 = 'mytest';
my $test2 = 'this is a mytest blah test';

if ($test2 =~ /$test1/)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }

This prints YES!!!

I need this solution quick.

Thanks a bunch

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Do you really need regex? The problem is just a simple substring search...

if (index($test2, $test1) >= 0)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }

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maybe try with "\Q" to escape special char

my $test1 = 'my?test';
my $test2 = 'this is a my?test blah test';

if ($test2 =~ /\Q$test1/)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }

ouput YES!!!

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quotemeta can handle special regex characters.

use warnings;
use strict;

my $test1 = quotemeta 'my?test';
my $test2 = 'this is a my?test blah test';

if ($test2 =~ /$test1/)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }

{
    my $test1 = quotemeta 'mytest';
    my $test2 = 'this is a mytest blah test';

    if ($test2 =~ /$test1/)    {    print "YES!!! \n";}
    else   {     print "NOOOO!!! \n";  }
}

Prints:

YES!!! YES!!!

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Have you looked in CPAN for an existing module that might help you? From PerlMonks, I found references to Apache::ParseLog and Apache::LogRegEx