Posted by Chris on 02/11/05 06:58

Because it's parsing $WRW as a string, because of the double quotes. so
you would need to do it like this:

quotemeta('pat:1$WRW')
to not let it parse any variables

or

quotemeta("pat:1\$WRW")

to not parse that particular variable

Steve Kaufman wrote:

>Why does
> quotemeta("pat:1$WRW")
>return
> pat:1
>instead of
> pat:1\$WRW
>
>What am I misunderstanding about quotemeta function?
>
>
>

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