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http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/quotemeta.html 
$x = "\t";
print quotemeta $x;

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Re^2: reverse interpolation
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 19, 2008 at 06:39 UTC
    No, that doesn't return "\\t" as requested. It returns "\\\t"
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