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9464 escape is Use a \ to escape a character, see perldoc -f quotemeta for escaping whole strings, use \Qsomething\E in an RE, and use the URI::Escape module for URIs | Journey's tenth album hippie <*:##NULL>
3881 escape is Use a \ to escape a character, see perldoc -f quotemeta for escaping whole strings, use \Qsomething\E in an RE, and use the URI::Escape module for URIs perlbot <*:##NULL>