Re^2: replacing "\L" character in strings

Thanks ww and Marshall, sorry if I was not clear, but what is passed here is not path names but database server names and the server names have a backslash inside it. and if the letter coming after the backslash is a recognised escape character, it escapes it.

Ex: if someone passes the server name as "SERVER05\LDEV", it is changed to "SERVER05dev" because \L is taken as 'convert all characters to lower case till a \E is found. Since the server name is different, the connection fails

is there a way to ignore escape characters in strings or some other way?

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Re^3: replacing "\L" character in strings by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 25, 2010 at 18:25 UTC
As you don't show any code, it's hard to tell you what you really mean. Maybe you want to use quotemeta respectively `\Q` in your regular expression, to prevent interpolation of regex-meta-characters? See perlre and/or perlop.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: replacing "\L" character in strings by ananthbv (Initiate) on Jul 25, 2010 at 22:09 UTC
Thanks a lot Corion. I used the quotemeta function to escape the metacharacters. this is working fine for me.	[reply]
Re^3: replacing "\L" character in strings by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 25, 2010 at 18:33 UTC
The normal way to put a "backslash" in a character stream is to "back slash" the "backslash", i.e. with '\\', the first back slash means that the next char (which is a backslash) should be taken literally. In other words, convert single '\' to '\\'.	[reply]
Re^3: replacing "\L" character in strings by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 25, 2010 at 20:03 UTC
Lacking any hint of how you've code the script, it's hard to be confident that my first suggestion -- that you use NON-INTERPOLATING SINGLE QUOTES (') -- will solve your problem... but it might, as might Corion's re quotemeta.	[reply]