You shouldn't quotemeta already quotemeta-ed strings. There is no reasonable way for quotemeta to be able to tell what has been quotemeta-ed before, and what just needs a backslash before the special characters because you put it there.

Data going back-and-forth should be marked somehow, so that you are able to tell that quoting has already been done.

You can write your own routine that won't escape backslashes that are in front of characters that need escaping, but I predict sooner or later you will run accross a string where the backslash came in the input, and not as the result of quoting.

In reply to Re: quotemeta % by matija
in thread quotemeta and \% to insert perl code into database by macPerl

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