Re: Escaping quotemeta() in regex

That doesn't really make any sense. Does
\dir\d\file.txt
mean
\\dir\\d\\file\.txt
or
\dir\d\\file.txt
or something else?
There's no way to tell what the user meant. There's a reason why regexp provide an escape character: It is required.

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Re^2: Escaping quotemeta() in regex by sweetblood (Prior) on Nov 30, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
Exactley, this is why I ask if there may be someway to tell quotemeta the this protion of the string should not be escaped because it contains valid expression metacharacters. Sweetblood	[reply]
Re^3: Escaping quotemeta() in regex by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 30, 2005 at 18:24 UTC
What distinguishes the portion that should be escaped from the portion that shouldn't be?	[reply]
Re^4: Escaping quotemeta() in regex by sweetblood (Prior) on Nov 30, 2005 at 18:28 UTC
That's my question :) Sweetblood	[reply]
Re^5: Escaping quotemeta() in regex by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 30, 2005 at 18:43 UTC