Is there a module that automatically escapes characters?

jey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear fellow Monks,

About a year or two ago, I read once that there was a module that was automatically escaping characters when using some scalar in a regex

So the module did something like that

my $re = "F+g?"
my $escaped_re = FANTASTIC::MODULE::Some_function($re);
# $ is now F\+g\?
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Does anyone known by any change what that module is? I tried CPAN and super search but could not find it.

--
jey

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Re: Is there a module that automatically escapes characters? by friedo (Prior) on Feb 10, 2006 at 18:36 UTC
See quotemeta. It's a builtin.	[reply]
Re^2: Is there a module that automatically escapes characters? by jey (Pilgrim) on Feb 10, 2006 at 18:45 UTC
Thanks that was fast, useful and helpful -- jey	[reply]