Re^10: Combinations of lists, etc

Nice work, AnomalousMonk. Thanks for that.

Why would you prefer replacing the '*' (and reverting it after the 'glob'), over escaping it (which requires no reverting afterwards), e.g.:
$s =~ s/\*/\\$&/g;

Comment on Re^10: Combinations of lists, etc

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^11: Combinations of lists, etc by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 08, 2019 at 03:42 UTC
Because I couldn't get it to work. :) Update: I thought I had that working, but it doesn't seem to work now, and I don't have time ATM to mess with it. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^12: Combinations of lists, etc by tel2 (Pilgrim) on Oct 08, 2019 at 04:44 UTC
No need to bother with it, AnomalousMonk. Just wondered if there was a good reason. Thanks for all your other help.	[reply]