quotemeta - quote regular expression magic characters

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
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# NAME

quotemeta - quote regular expression magic characters

# SYNOPSIS

quotemeta EXPR

quotemeta

# DESCRIPTION

Returns the value of EXPR with all non-``word'' characters backslashed. (That is, all characters not matching `/[A-Za-z_0-9]/` will be preceded by a backslash in the returned string, regardless of any locale settings.) This is the internal function implementing the `\Q` escape in double-quoted strings.

If EXPR is omitted, uses `$_`.

quotemeta - quote regular expression magic characters