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smackdab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

$_ = "one\ttwo\nthree four five\r"; s/\t/\\t/g; s/\n/\\n/g; s/\r/\\r/g; s/\f/\\f/g;
THANKS (I don't think there a fn for this...the closest I saw was quotemeta and I don't think tr/// helps...)