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 -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next