Re: Escaping quotemeta() in regex

[ikegami]

in reply to Escaping quotemeta() in regex

That doesn't really make any sense. Does
\dir\d\file.txt
mean
\\dir\\d\\file\.txt
or
\dir\d\\file.txt
or something else?
There's no way to tell what the user meant. There's a reason why regexp provide an escape character: It is required.

[sweetblood]

Exactley, this is why I ask if there may be someway to tell quotemeta the this protion of the string should not be escaped because it contains valid expression metacharacters.

[ikegami]

What distinguishes the portion that should be escaped from the portion that shouldn't be?

[sweetblood]

That's my question :)