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I'd love to see my oft-repeated rant addressed early on:

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        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: (tye)Re: Learning Perl's Regular Expressions
by japhy (Canon) on May 07, 2001 at 20:25 UTC
    I'll be discussing the use of regexes for simple things like /foo/. I'll mention quotemeta() and \Q...\E, of course, and suggest that something like /\Q$str\E/ be rewritten without using a regex.

    I will also discuss the dangers of /$str/.

    japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker
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