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On Dec 25, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Eric Brine wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote: > 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. > > Nit: quotemeta is not perfect at generating shell literals. It fails for carriage returns. $ perl -e' print quotemeta "\cm\cj"'|hexdump 0000000 5c 0d 5c 0a 0000004Thread Previous | Thread Next