in reply to reverse quotemeta?
This isn't a reverse quotemeta since quotemeta won't turn a newline into '\n'
eval("\$x = \"$x\"");
should do what you want.
Update This is not ideal, although this will perform all escaped character conversions, if your string has an unescaped '$' in it then it will be replaced by a variable. For example: 'It costs $1.25' the '$1' will be replaced with the contents of $1
eval("\$x = \"$x\"");
should do what you want.
Update This is not ideal, although this will perform all escaped character conversions, if your string has an unescaped '$' in it then it will be replaced by a variable. For example: 'It costs $1.25' the '$1' will be replaced with the contents of $1
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