Ken Thanks for pointing out that. I was asking this b/c I want to put regex in a variable and use it for matching. such as this one in java/scala: scala> val regex = """\w+\$\w+\$\w+""".r val regex: scala.util.matching.Regex = \w+\$\w+\$\w+ scala> str val res72: String = hello$world$buddy scala> regex.matches(str) val res73: Boolean = true regards Ken Slater wrote: > Therefore, you need to escape the dollar sign ($) as follows: > my $delimiter = '\$'; > To indicate that you are using the dollar sign ($) as a character. -- Simple Mail https://simplemail.co.in/Thread Previous