February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
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quotemeta EXPR
quotemetaThis function returns the value of
EXPR with all nonalphanumeric characters
backslashed. (That is, all characters not matching /[A–Za–z_0–9]/ will be preceded by a backslash
in the returned string, regardless of locale settings.) This is the
internal function implementing the \Q
escape in interpolative contexts (including double-quoted strings,
backticks, and patterns).
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