Well, a convenient way to "remove" your \ possibly, and then re-add them, off the top of my head is to use:
Split-map-join Where you split on \, map your previous s/// on the results, and then join with \\. I'm assuming you want to preserve user \ values as literal chars. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 4:58 PM To: CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN) Cc: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Re: escaping % AND \% On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:03:42PM -0500, CAMPBELL, BRIAN D (BRIAN) wrote: > Then if you want all chars to be treated literally, then I presume you > want: > \% > To be translated to: > \\\% > So just adding your $esc to the left part of s/// should do the trick, > right? The \\% is translated to: \\\\% Which leaves the % unescaped. I'll just remove "\" from the input. But thought this might be a reasonably common situation (use % around a search string but not allow % or _ to be special in the user data. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
