How to escape mataCharacters without Backslash it using REGEX?

[aurekha]

Thanks in advance for reply.
My question is to escape meta characters without backslash it?

[eWish]

There is a Tutorial on the Howtos that will explain it better than I can.

--Kevin

[aurekha]

I am thankful for ur reply. But i mean to use METAQUOTE (perlfunc) in regex inorder to escape metacharacters without backslash it.

Please Help me out.

[KevinADC]

quoted from perldoc: regexp tutorial

The escape sequence \Q ...\E quotes, or protects most non-alphabetic characters. For instance,

    $x = "\QThat !^*&%~& cat!";
    $x =~ /\Q!^*&%~&\E/;  # check for rough language

It does not protect $ or @ , so that variables can still be substituted.