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quotemeta() Function of Regular Expression in Perl
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Tutorials
Perl
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What is quotemeta() Function of regular expression in Perl?
How to escape the metacharacters in string?
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Explanation |
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The quotemeta() function is used to escape all the meta characters in a string.
Syntax:
quotemeta(string);
In the above syntax, quotemeta() function takes a "string" as an argument.
Example to escape metacharacters in string:
#! C:\programfiles\perl\bin\perl
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
print quotemeta("BC*[.]*");
Result:
BC\*\[\.\]\*
In the above example the metacharacters in the string "*, \, [ , .,]" are escaped using the
quotemeta() function.
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