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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
December 25, 2011 06:46
Subject:
Re: The Unicode Bug still bites?
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20111225144639.3885.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
Yves wrote:
> 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.

Such as file names in backticks.


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