[Pdx-pm] Escaping a character in a string from a file

[John]

Sorry for not verifying this before.  Generally I am good at doing that
before posting (hangs head in shame).

I was creating HTML output.  Turns out when I was showing the results in the
HTML the \ caused problems due to some javascript.  When I tried to recreate
with print statements it worked just fine.

Sorry again!

John.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdx-pm-list-bounces at mail.pm.org [mailto:pdx-pm-list-
> bounces at mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of John
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:28 PM
> To: 'pdx.pm '
> Subject: RE: [Pdx-pm] Escaping a character in a string from a file
> 
> Oh!  I tried to recreate the problem in a simpler example and it worked.
> Obviously some side effect of something else I am doing.  I will post my
> stupidity as soon as I find it.
> 
> John.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pdx-pm-list-bounces at mail.pm.org [mailto:pdx-pm-list-
> > bounces at mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of Randal L. Schwartz
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:21 PM
> > To: John
> > Cc: 'pdx.pm '
> > Subject: Re: [Pdx-pm] Escaping a character in a string from a file
> >
> > >>>>> "John" == John  <jgoalby at hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> > John> I have a file of regular expressions I want to match.  I read in
> the
> > file
> > John> and then match each entry as such:
> >
> > John> if ($something =~ /$tomatch/i)
> >
> > John> I want to be able to specify something like ".pl" in the file so
> > that I can
> > John> match all perl files.  Specifying .pl matches .apl.  Is there a
> way
> > I can
> > John> escape the "." when it is in a file?  I tried "\.pl", but it
> didn't
> > work.
> >
> > Uh, that should have, with the code you have above.  Can you show
> > an example of it not working?
> >
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