Tutorials Point


  Perl Home

  PERL Functions

© 2011 TutorialsPoint.COM


  Home     References     About TP     Advertising  

PERL quotemeta Function



Syntax

quotemeta EXPR


Definition and Usage

Escapes all meta-characters in EXPR. For example, quotemeta("AB*..C") returns "'AB\*\.\.C".

Return Value

  • A string with all meta-characters escaped.

Example

Try out following example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print quotemeta("AB*\n[.]*");

It will produce following results:

AB\*\
\[\.\]\*


Printer Friendly



  

Advertisement

Online Image Processing

Indian Baby Names