Re: [ID 20000323.013] @a not protected by \Q in re

>\Q does not protect @foo in rexen.  This seems to me to be an issue,
>given that I use \Q to reduce gotchas in user-supplied REs.  Should
>it not do this?

No, it should not do this.  Its "protection" occurs after interpolation,
as this should illustrate:

    % perl -Mstrict -we 'my $x = "th.?is"; printf "%d\n", $x =~ /$x/'
    0
    % perl -Mstrict -we 'my $x = "th.?is"; printf "%d\n", $x =~ /\Q$x/'
    1
    % perl -Mstrict -we 'my $x = "th.?is"; printf "%d\n", $x =~ /\Q$z/'
    Global symbol "$z" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
    Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
    Exit -1

--tom

• Re: [ID 20000323.013] @a not protected by \Q in re by Tom Christiansen
• [ID 20000323.013] @a not protected by \Q in re by Martyn Pearce