On Aug 16, 5:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote: > Basically > it all comes down to this: always use quotemeta unless the variable is > known to contain the string form of a regex.
No. It comes down to: "always use quotemeta unless the variable is known to contain the string form of a regexp, or known to not contain any meta characters." Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/