On 8/16/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
*** Warning silly rhetorical argument ahead *** So the foo in /foo/ is not a regular expression because it contains no meta-characters? I don't think anyone would make that argument. So the fact that the string is "know to not contain any meta-characters" doesn't change the fact that you know what is inside it and know that it is a regular expression and therefore my original rule of thumb should stand. *** end silly rhetorical argument *** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
