From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T01:49:43+09:00
Subject: Re: String substitution without RegEx

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:38:08AM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "A" == Andreas Schwarz <usenet@andreas-s.net> writes:
> A> (...) Of course I could
> A> write functions to escape regex special chars in the pattern and
> A> backreferences in the replacement string, but this is about the ugliest
> A> solution I can think of.
> 
>  Well Regexp#escape don't do what you want ?

It might help him, but I can understand how he feels.. everytime I write
a pattern as a regexp which in the end just is a plain string, or a pattern
which would do with glob-style matching, I have the impression I'm throwing
cannons after pigeons again (nothing against your comp, guy :-)

-martin