Re: matching the line which has special characters in it

in reply to matching the line which has special characters in it

If you're using regular expressions, you should not run into any trouble with "special characters" as & , which I'm guessing is the character you're concerned about, is not a regex metacharacter. See perlretut and specifically the section on metacharacters and how to match them in a pattern.

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Re^2: matching the line which has special characters in it by graff (Chancellor) on Nov 06, 2006 at 04:55 UTC
He would also need to worry about the parens, which, if not escape or disabled, would become a capture, rather than matching literal parens.	[reply]

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