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From: p.dean@gmx.com (Peter Dean)
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In comp.lang.misc Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 2:14:33 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:33:39 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>
>>> I figured out my Perl issue. =~ s/([\"])/\\$1/g; does the trick.
>>
>> If that Perl code does what I think it does, the following Python
>> equivalent is simpler:
>>
>>     «str-expr».replace('"', '""')
> 
> The Perl code above escapes quotes, so adds '\' before any "
> 
> I know nothing of Python :)
> 
> I actually ended up with =~ s/([\$"])/\\$1/g; in my final code. I needed
> to escape both quotes and '$'
> 

would it hurt to backslash everything nonalphanumeric?

perldoc -f quotemeta