Re: Making thunderbird attachments searchable

Johan Vromans wrote:
>
> The variable may contain characters that have a special meaning when
> used inside a pattern.
>
> You can use either:
>
>         $partbody_boundary = quotemeta($partbody_boundary);
>         if ( /$partbody_boundary/ )
>
> or
>
>         if ( /\Q$partbody_boundary\E/ )
>   
How about
      if ( qr/$regexp/ )

Per http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators

you can precompile the regexp this way if necessary.