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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Marco Moreno <mmoreno@pobox.com> wrote: > Using a \Q inside a bracketed character class, should this return true or > false? This returns "false" for my 5.18.2 and 5.20.0 installs. > > perl -e 'print "foo"=~ /\Q[a-z]\E/ ? "true" : "false"' > It's not inside a bracketed class, not that it matters. \Q..\E doesn't know anything about regular expressions. It escapes non-word characters after interpolating, so /\Q[a-z]\E/ is the same thing as /\[a\-z\]/Thread Previous | Thread Next