On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:50:07AM -0400, Joel Gwynn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This leads me to consider the many other characters that would need > escaping. What's the right way to do this without escaping every > non-alpha character?
First, you don't have to escape every non-alpha character. Just the ones that have meta-meaning. Second, you want the \Q sequence, as in /\Qlong(parenthesized)string./ -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

