perlquestion sathya_myl <p>I am trying to replace a single character in a word with wild character and ended up with error</p> <p>Here is my code</p> <code> my $test = "Here is the there"; $test =~s/(ther*)/\<test\>$1\<\/test\>/ig; print "$test\n"; </code> <p> The output is "Here is <test>the</test> <test>the</test>re"</p> <p>But the expected output is "Here is the <test>there</test></p> <p>My intention is this * need to represent a character after the string ther.</p>