in reply to Problem With Perl IRC Server

The one-liner 
perl -e "$a='Rob89$';print$a.':';$a=~s/(\W)/\\$1/g;print$a;"

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produces a string where everything that might be magical is escaped. Would that work?

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Re: Re: Problem With Perl IRC Server
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 26, 2002 at 23:08 UTC
    Perl has that built-in, and it's called quotemeta. 

    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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