i don't want to just escape those characters. they were merely examples. i was hoping maybe there was some built-in way to escape ALL the characters that mean anything to regular expressions. it just seemed like a lot of work to put a \ before all the characters that regular expressions recognize as having special meanings. so i guess you're saying that i have to escape them all separately by myself?
> > To escape the '\w' just preprend another '\'. > To escape the '.' just prepent it with '\'. > > e.g., $x =~ /\\w/ searches for a single back-slash followed by "w". > $x =~ /\./ searches for a single period. > > -- > Eric P. > Los Gatos, CA > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
