I have a file in which I store a list of file names. Often files will have $ symbols and other characters in the name:

com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$1.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$2.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$3.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$4.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$5.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$AreaAveragingScaleFilter.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$CircleQuarterListener.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$PJAFont.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics$PJARectangle.class
com/eteks/awt/PJAGraphics.class

I have a perl script that needs to read these file names and perform some different operations on them. I read it in as:

open(FH, "$datfile") || die "Can't open $datfile!";

while(my $line=<FH>)
{
    chomp($line);
    push(@list, $line);
}

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Is there a way to escape all special characters in an input stream so that they remain characters rather than being interpreted as scalars by the interpreter?

Thanks in advance,

jbwiv

In reply to Reading special characters from file? by jbwiv

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