quote a \

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Re: quote a \ by grinder (Bishop) on Mar 10, 2008 at 11:01 UTC
You can also use the quotemeta function to escape magic punctuation characters. `my $safe = quotemeta($str);` If `$str` contained a backslash, it would be escaped correctly. • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply] [d/l]
Re: quote a \ by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2008 at 10:16 UTC
You can quote it, very surprisingly, with another backslash `\`. `my @items = split m/\\/, $string;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: quote a \ by drip (Beadle) on Mar 10, 2008 at 10:18 UTC
another \ would escape the "\" character..=)	[reply]
Re: quote a \ by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 10, 2008 at 16:56 UTC
The first argument of `split` is a regexp: `split /\\/, ...` [download] If you use a string literal, you need to take into account that the resulting string will be treated as regexp. That means you need to escape the slash to form the right string, then escape the slash again to form the right regexp. `split "\\\\", ...` [download] In short, don't use a string as the first argument of `split` :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: quote a \ by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2008 at 11:31 UTC
sorry for double post but it seems my IDE screwed up i just tried it per command line and it works . thanks guys .	[reply]
Re: quote a \ by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2008 at 11:27 UTC
none of these seem to work with my code .	[reply]
Re^2: quote a \ by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 10, 2008 at 11:42 UTC
Show us the code. It should work with double backslashes, maybe your problem is somewhere else?	[reply]