Frankly you got a bunch of valid answers here (zaxo for instance answered your question, but you didnt seem to grok it.) Around here we usually like to see people make some effort in their questions. Some kind of sign that we the respondants arent putting more effort into things than the questioner. Anyway, 

s/(\\\\|\\')|'/$1 ? $1 : "\\'"/ge;

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will do something like what you want. Its so confusing and strange looking because it doesnt screw up preescaped data (assuming that \\ is really a \). Theres probably cleaner nicer looking ways to do it to, but this works and came off the top of my head.

Oh and please dont ask what/how it works. Read perlre like the rest of us did.


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demerphq


In reply to Re: Re: : Re: Escaping a string by demerphq
in thread Escaping a string by Anonymous Monk

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