How to match "++" as part of regular expression

[sonia93]

Hi ,

I am having a variable which has "++" or "+" as part of it .
My file consists something like this

air++
water
fire+

I want to go one by one to each line and match a particular word of that line.

By using
foreach $line (<name>) {
if($line =~ /$name/ ) {
//
}
}

This gives Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in $name.

I want to know if I can do a pattern matching where my pattern consists of "++" or "+". Can anyone please help.

[KevinADC]

as posted on the other forum:

if($line =~ /\Q$name\E/ ) {