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Maybe Escape in Dynamic RegExpsby stefan k (Curate) |
on Apr 30, 2004 at 08:14 UTC ( [id://349355]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
stefan k has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Fellow Monks, it has already been hard enough to find a good title for this question and even harder for me to find the solution to this problem (which -I am sure- must be very plain and simple, because I am looking for it so long(*)) I am building a regexp dynamically, say (using a look behind just to make it a little more spicy) where $a and $b will always contain exactly one char, but that char might be special in regexps. For example $a can be "?" or "-" depending on the current situation. The question is: is there any way (a module at CPAN which I have overlooked or an operator I didn't fully understand or ...) to dynamically escape those w/o me going through a list of special chars and checking them?
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