perform variable substitutions once. If you don't want any
substitutions at all, use the special delimiter C<m''>:
- $pattern = 'Seuss';
- m'$pattern'; # matches '$pattern', not 'Seuss'
+ @pattern = ('Seuss');
+ m/@pattern/; # matches 'Seuss'
+ m'@pattern'; # matches the literal string '@pattern'
The global modifier C<//g> allows the matching operator to match
within a string as many times as possible. In scalar context,