unmatched bracket ( in regex

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Hi,
Anyone have an idea behind this one? I'm trying to search a string say:
branchRetrievalDetails.scheduleAtFixedRate(branchDetailsServlet,getTomorrowMorning6am(),repeat);
for something like this:
scheduleAtFixedRate(
but when I do a line =~ string comparison, I get following error:
Unmatched bracket in regex: marked by <!-- HERE in m/scheduleAtFixedRate( <-- Here at filename.pl line 132
Is it possible to delimit the string to search for it like?
string comparison =~ tr/(/\(/;
Tried this but got same error.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Mark.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

That's cos brackets are special characters (for capturing) in regular expressions.
If you want to match an open bracket literally then you need to escape it with a backslash:

/matchdata[red]\([/red]/;

Trojan.