Not at all! That will escape "dangerous" characters for Perl but does not at all guarantee that the resulting string is safe (or will even work at all) for anything else but Perl.
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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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