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NAME

String::Unquotemeta - undo what quotemeta() does, nothing more nothing less

VERSION

This document describes String::Unquotemeta version 0.1

SYNOPSIS

    use String::Unquotemeta;
    
    my $japh = 'J.A.P.H.';
    my $meta = quotemeta($japh); # J\.A\.P\.H\.
    my $undo = unquotemeta($meta); # J.A.P.H.

DESCRIPTION

This module provides one simple function, unquotemeta(), that undoes the escaping that quotemeta() does.

It handles undefined values, no values, too many values, etc the same way as quotemeta(). Think of it as quotemeta()'s evil twin.

unquotemeta() is exported into the calling name space unless you bring in the module without it's import() method being called:

    use String::Unquotemeta (); # do not call import() == do not pollute my name space
    my $undone = String::Unquotemeta::unquotemeta($string);  

    require String::Unquotemeta; # do not call import() == do not pollute my name space
    my $undone = String::Unquotemeta::unquotemeta($string);

INTERFACE

unquotemeta()

Takes one argument, the string to undo what quotemeta() did.

If no argument is given, then it uses $_ (like quotemeta()).

If an undefined argument is given, it returns '' (like quotemeta()).

DIAGNOSTICS

Throws no warnings or errors of it's own.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

String::Unquotemeta requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

SEE ALSO

String::Escape has an unquotemeta() function also. If you need all of the other utilities and exporting it provides feel free to use it instead.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-string-unquotemeta@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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