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in thread read and write file in directory

and using that string within regular expressions (without quotemeta) will also get the value interpreted anew

You're right of course. The situation where I encountered the problem -- probably 12 or more years ago -- was almost certainly with regex.

But since I switched to using /s instead of \s everywhere (except when passing stuff to the shell), I haven't had the problem; so I hope you'll excuse me if the long distance memory confused the circumstances :)

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