QUOTEMETA

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NAME

quotemeta - quote regular expression magic characters

SYNOPSIS

quotemeta EXPR

quotemeta

DESCRIPTION

Returns the value of EXPR with all non-alphanumeric 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 $_.