I have the following code:
my $ftype;
{ my $assoc = `assoc .html`;
$assoc =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@;
print "assoc: $assoc\n";
$ftype = `ftype $assoc`;
$ftype =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@; ## this line is referred to below
print "ftype: $ftype\n";
}Because I don't know what the content of $assoc is going to be, i.e. whether it will contain any characters that are regular expression meta-characters, I seem to want to apply \Q \E around the $alloc= string in the line marked above. But if I do, it appears that the $assoc is not interpolated. So I don't. But then what happens if $assoc contains RE meta-characters?
Is this a paradox, or is there a solution?
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