On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:26:52AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com): > > I want to do a substitution like this: > > > > s/#4/Blah hash $288/gi > > I guess a better question what is a quick and easy was to escape all > meta-characters in a string? > > Like, if I want to escape * ? $ perldoc -f quotemeta -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>