Re: How to escape square bracket in PM?

Use the HTML entities encoded form:

[ is represented as [
] is represented as ]

Update: Here's a one-liner that will help you to figure out what the HTML entities are for particular characters. It's easy to tinker to test other symbols too:

perl -MHTML::Entities -e "print qq/$_\t/, encode_entities( $_, $_ ), 
$/ for split //, shift" "[]<>"

__OUTPUT__
[       &#91;
]       &#93;
<       &lt;
>       &gt;
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Beware shell interpretation of the symbols you test. ;)

Dave

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Re^2: How to escape square bracket in PM? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 12, 2005 at 17:23 UTC
When I'm feeling lazy in the ChatterBox, I use "`[[]`" for "`[`". For example, "`[[]test]`" gives "[test]". "`]`" doesn't need escaping, with or without this trick. Update: Oops, this should have been a reply to the OP.	[reply] [d/l] [select]