Questions related to Regular Expression's quotemeta(`\Q...\E`). Use in conjunction with flavour of Regex(eg:re2) used and the tool it is used in (eg:Javascript,c++).
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Javascript equivalent of Perl's \Q ... \E or quotemeta()
In Perl regular expressions, you can surround a subexpression with \Q and \E to indicate that you want that subexpression to be matched as a literal string even if there are metacharacters in there. You also have the quotemeta function that inserts…
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Escaping metacharacters in a Raku regex (like Perl's quotemeta() or \Q...\E)?
How can I escape metacharacters in a Raku regex the way I would with Perl's quotemeta function (\Q..\E)?
That is, the Perl code
my $sentence = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog';
my $substring = 'quick.*?fox';
$sentence =~…
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Implementing "quotemeta" \Q ... \E in Tcl?
The typical use-case is when a regex needs to include user input. Characters with special meaning in regex (i.e. "the dirty dozen" in Perl) need to be escaped. Perl provides the "quotemeta" functionality to do this: simply encapsulate…
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Perl - quotemeta with Chinese characters
I use quotemeta to escape for file path of Chinese filename. But it returns wrong.
Example of the code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Encode;
my $ustring1 = "/opt/游戏美术.txt";
my $ustring2 = quotemeta $ustring1;
print "$ustring1\n" ;
print "$ustring2";
print…
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Strings with quotemeta enabled not able to match specific regex
For following strings with quotemeta enabled, the if statements are not able to match .cpp and .o file names. Am I doing anything wrong…
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