Re: wish: string with other quoting then \

In what way won't it help?

/ Per Hedbor ()

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2003-09-21 20:19: Subject: Re: wish: string with other quoting then \

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:05:01PM +0200, Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum wrote:

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A decent glue to a regexp engine ought to include a function to quote a string to a regexp that only matches that string, i.e. like str() in

This still doesn't help too much when quoting is necessary. Say, I might have too complex RE (to match mail header, for instance), where I want to use special characters and their literals as well. Double quoting is never good idea, wherever it is, IMHO.

Regards, /Al

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