Not sure I understand what you say here...
Should I do this then?
$data = "question?" $newdata = m/\Q$data\E/
I believe you meant:
$newdata =~ m/\Q$data\E/;
Hope that helps.
James
Because I couldn't get that to work?
/juman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:03:15AM -0600, James Edward Gray II wrote:On Mar 23, 2004, at 8:54 AM, juman wrote:
I have a script that handles some text strings. The textstrings in them
self I can't control so they can contain characters as ?:>< etc which
makes them hard to check through a regexp. So I want to replace alla
characters like this:
question? => \q\u\e\s\t\i\o\n\?
Hopefully that would make things easier for me matching them but how do
I do this?
Here's a one liner that answers your question directly:
perl -e '$str = "question"; $str =~ s/(.)/\\$1/g; print "$str\n"'
But, don't do that. There is a special escape just for escaping the regex characters. You want:
m/\Q$your_variable_here\E/
Hope that helps.
James
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