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uotemeta will quote the space character but that doesn't seem to affect printing
What do you mean by that?
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Re^3: string escaping / de-escaping functions
by juster (Friar) on Oct 25, 2008 at 07:13 UTC
    Sorry, you're right. What I meant to say is it doesn't seem to affect matching regular expressions. I'm not sure why I said printing. Then again I should assume quotemeta is safe for regular expressions if it is used by \Q and \E like the docs say! It's late and time for another Pabst!