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From: p.dean@invalid.net (Peter Dean)
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Subject: Re: perl test
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 08:19:37 -0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.misc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 03:01:14 -0000 (UTC), Peter Dean wrote:
> 
>> would it hurt to backslash everything nonalphanumeric?
> 
> Does Perl have the equivalent of Python’s re.escape
> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.escape>?

perldoc -f quotemeta

I thought I already said that.  oops.