in reply to How to escape single quote(s) without the use of quotemeta

Is this what you are after?

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 1;

my $have = "This sting it's bothering to escape ' single characters";
my $want = "This sting it\\'s bothering to escape \\' single character
+s";

$have =~ s/'/\\'/g;

is $have, $want;

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Re^2: How to escape single quote(s) without the use of quotemeta
by thanos1983 (Parson) on Apr 05, 2019 at 14:49 UTC

    Hello hippo,

    Thanks it works. I thought also about escaping the back slash character and I have tried it but it did not worked for me. I guess s and g is what I was looking for.

    Thanks again for your time and effort.

    BR / Thanos

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