delimiting special characters

[zzzqqq]

Hi,
Anyone know of a complete function that would delimit majority of special characters in a string?
E.g. +,-,@,space, /
Know I can use the translation function for tr/replace/original/d for individual characters, could this be used for groups of characters? Space and + are the major characters I am concerned about.
Cheers,
Mark.

 

[PaulTEG]

$string=~s/[group]/replacement/g;


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[ishnid]

Can you explain exactly what you mean by "delimit"?

 

[zzzqqq]

Cheers,
Thanks for the replies. Have problems with txt files.
reading file line like this:

Visual C++
Error message: Nested quantifiers in regex: <-- Here in m/"InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++ <-- HERE 6"/
Is there a problem with ++ quantifier?

I already understood the s/[replacement characters]/characters replaced by/g
Just wondering how this would work for number of replacement characters:
s/['"/\]/'"/\/g
Can this be used to replace individual characters with individual characters. i.e. ' with \' or something?
Cheers,
Mark.

 

[zzzqqq]

Hi,
actually have found solution to what I was interested in doing:
E.g. $microsoftProductNumber = grep /\Q$microsoftProductName/,@microsoftProducts;

Use \Q and this turns off special character meaning for strings when comparing to the regex.
Thanks to everyone who helped in this case.
Cheers,
Mark.