--- W P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i don't want to just escape those characters. they were merely examples. i
> was hoping maybe there was some built-in way to escape ALL the characters
> that mean anything to regular expressions.
Well, technically, *all* characters mean something to a regex. I assume that you want
to escape
metacharacters which transform the behavior of the regular expressions.
perldoc -f quotemeta
quotemeta will escape all non-word characters (prepend them with a backslash) which
should match
your needs. If that's too general, start looking at qr// and related functions.
Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl:
push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//;
shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A
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