help on sed

[Anonymous Monk]

hello everyone I am having a lil difficuilty in doing this sed line in a perl script. I have a string which looks like this /topics/topics.jsp?&top=Education+Resources i already have a regex which escapes the "/" but how can i escape the other special characters like +, ?, = and so on please help

[sauoq]

"Escape" meaning what, exactly?

If you want to escape it for use in a URL have a look at URI::URL's equery() method. If you want to escape it for use in a regex, take a look at the quotemeta() function and the \Q and \E escapes. (Info in perldoc perlre.) If you want to escape it for use in HTML, use CGI.pm's escapeHTML() method...

If you want something else, you'll need to be more specific.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

[arturo]

If you're talking about escaping characters that have special meaning inside a regex, what you're looking for is \.
perlre
perlretut

If not P, what? Q maybe?
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