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by Aristotle (5147)

s/([\.\(\)\^\$\@\[\]\*\?\+\{\}\#\\])/\\$1/g;

Is there a difference from $_ = quotemeta $_;?
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  by TorgoX (1933) <sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2004.12.08 17:13 (#36650) Homepage Journal
  
  I think quotemeta is a bit more verbose. Like it seems to quote everything that's not \w.
  
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    by Aristotle (5147)
    
    Ah, yes. Actually I just remembered that quotemeta is in fact problematic for this purpose because backslashes are not treated the same in regex quoting context vs double-quote quoting context. Which annoyed me when I was trying to interpolate user data in a the s/// pattern in a string to be evaled.

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