On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:46:31AM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > Quoting Thomas Eibner (thomas at stderr.net): > > 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 > > > > perldoc -f quotameta ^ quotEmeta ;-) > No documentation for perl function `quotameta' found quotemeta EXPR quotemeta Returns the value of EXPR with all non-"word" characters backslashed. (That is, all characters not matching "/[A-Za-z_0-9]/" will be preceded by a backslash in the returned string, regardless of any locale settings.) This is the internal func- tion implementing the "\Q" escape in double-quoted strings. If EXPR is omitted, uses "$_". $ perl $test = quotemeta '*?$-'; print $test, "\n";^D \*\?\$\- -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>