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quotemeta should be easy to implement in any language. Adding a slash in front of any characters other than [a-zA-Z0-9] should do the trick.
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Re^6: Unrecognized escape \Q passed through in regex
by Articuno (Beadle) on Jan 26, 2006 at 19:57 UTC
    Ok... You won :-)
    (somehow i was thinking that there could be a problem with that... but now it's clear that it's safe ^_^;;; )
    -- 6x9=42
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