[Boston.pm] Is there a modifier on m or s that says the argument is not a regex

Is there a modifier for m  that says the argument is not a regular
expression?  Similarly for the or the first argument to s?
I looked and did not find it.
This seems like it would be useful.

I want to extract certain lines from a log file.  My perl program is
basically  lots of lines like:

print if m/some string/;

If the string contains a left or right parenthesis I must escape it or else
get an error message that says the argument is "not a regular expression".

So I have to escape each parenthesis with a backslash, which is tedious and
error prone.
I presume I would also need to escape at least the open square bracket, but
have not had those in the file.

Also, the string often contains lots of dots, e.g., is
com.example.foo/bar/program.c at line(123)  and this requested modifier
would have a small performance benefit.

-- 
Steve Tolkin