Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread Rob Roudebush
Wouldn't single quotes do the trick? Curtis Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- W P 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,

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread Curtis Poe
--- 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

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread W P
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. it just seemed like a lot of work to put a \ before all the characters that regular expressions recogni

Re: Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-28 Thread eric-perl
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, W P wrote: > I have a CGI script which takes two strings. It searches for the first > string in a file, replacing it with the second one. This file isn't > really important, more for fun, so I'm not too worried about people > deleting the whole file if they actually type out

Escaping special characters for regular expressions

2002-02-27 Thread W P
I have a CGI script which takes two strings. It searches for the first string in a file, replacing it with the second one. This file isn't really important, more for fun, so I'm not too worried about people deleting the whole file if they actually type out the contents as the first string. Ho