Re: Not matching a single quote (apostrophe!)

BUT NOT THE QUOTE

Since a quote is not special regexp character, it doesn't need escaping. If a quote gives you a problem, you have to look elsewhere than trying to escape it in the regexp: that's not the problem.

From the snippit you give us, I cannot determine where a quote makes a difference. Or is the given quote a different quote than you are matching against? (Someone gives you a "smart" quote for instance, which you're trying to match against an ASCII quote?)

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Re^2: Not matching a single quote (apostrophe!) by puddleglum (Initiate) on Nov 17, 2009 at 14:24 UTC
>> Since a quote is not special regexp character, it doesn't need escaping. agreed!! >> Or is the given quote a different quote than you are matching against? (Someone gives you a "smart" quote for instance ... ) yeah! hate smart quotes! the data file has been 'cleaned' to ensure there are no such entities. The quote character used in the replace was cut-and-pasted and globally-replaced in the data file and my perl, so it is definitely, 100%, exactly the same!	[reply]

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Re^2: Not matching a single quote (apostrophe!)
by puddleglum (Initiate) on Nov 17, 2009 at 14:24 UTC

>> Since a quote is not special regexp character, it doesn't need escaping.

agreed!!

>> Or is the given quote a different quote than you are matching against? (Someone gives you a "smart" quote for instance ... )

yeah! hate smart quotes! the data file has been 'cleaned' to ensure there are no such entities. The quote character used in the replace was cut-and-pasted and globally-replaced in the data file and my perl, so it is definitely, 100%, exactly the same!

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