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I have a file that I want to read in using the File::Slurp module then search that file for a specific line. I know Perl has regular expressions but the strings I’m searching for are user-generated so don’t want to have to worry about escaping everything. I could write a foreach loop to do this but was wondering if there’s a function in Perl that will do this for me? Everything I see online about finding text in Perl uses regular expressions.
You can just use a regular expression. You don’t have to worry about escaping everything, Perl has the quotemeta function for that (or alternatively, ‘\Q\E’).