Let's say I'm looking for the string "tftp>" as part of a regex. I could write /tftp>/ or I could escape the > like this /tftp\>/. Afaik these both work the same but I'm thinking the second is the better option for 2 reasons. 1) It's not necessarily possible for me to know everything about regular expressions and maybe > has some meaning in some obscure situation. Maybe I do know everyhing ;), who knows, but it is possible that someone with much greater experience in perl would learn something new even after many years. 2) Maybe it will have some meaning in the future which will break my existing code. Opinions?

In reply to Should I escape all chrs in a regex? by MikeKulls

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