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demerphq
Date:
December 25, 2011 03:00
Subject:
Re: The Unicode Bug still bites?
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CANgJU+UCtb7LpWAN+73njyWg2RWC5ZHhQo3vC625Mq_Tg2w4Rg@mail.gmail.com
On 14 April 2011 02:51, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:
> What *do* people use quotemeta for if not for regexes??

It tends to escape things reasonably well for a number of purposes.

Which is not to say that we should not fix the inconsistency, but
rather just to point out that is not JUST used for regexes.

Yves



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