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Oh, sure, but then your first suggestion, putting them in single quotes isn't going to work either, because I don't think the intent is to turn '.txt' into '\.mif'.

Abigail

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Re: Re: use of constants in regex substitutions?
by edan (Curate) on Sep 23, 2003 at 15:38 UTC

    Quite right! Good thing I recommended the second option... ;-). I maintain that \Q is the right way to do it.

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