"John W. Krahn" schreef: > s/\\/\\\\/g; > s/'/\\'/g;
These two can be combined to s/(?=[\\'])/\\/g which I don't expect to be faster; it just makes it easier to add characters to be escaped. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/