Metacharachters
Learn how to use metacharacters in regex.
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Perl interprets several characters in regular expressions as metacharacters, characters that represent something other than their literal interpretation.
We’ve seen a few metacharacters already (\b, ., and ?, for example).
Metacharacters give regex wielders power far beyond mere substring matches.
The regex engine treats all metacharacters as atoms. See perldoc ...