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Re: [nelhage/barnowl] f79d6a: IRC: Escape interpolated variables in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Oct 29 18:14:20 2009
Resent-From: nelhage@mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 03:29:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
cc: dirty-owl-hackers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20081206081839.GZ4999@mit.edu>
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> I think this won't work because BarnOwl matches filters using POSIX
> regular expressions, not perl or perl-compatible ones, and I don't
> believe POSIX specifies \Q...\E. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You are wrong: "\Q...\E" is compiled by Perl into quotemeta() calls.
Anders
