Diamonds are forever. Exec problems too.

From: Luciano ES (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/30/03

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:04:12 -0200

set myQuery "no meta characters"
set myResult [ exec sed -r "/$myQuery/I!d" d:/myfile.txt ]

# exec command becomes: sed -r "/no meta characters/I!d" d:/myfile.txt

set myQuery "some \s space"
set myResult [ exec sed -r "/$myQuery/I!d" d:/myfile.txt ]

# exec command becomes: sed -r "/some {\s} space/I!d" d:/myfile.txt

# WHAT???

set myQuery "XPCOM\.dll"
set myResult [ exec sed -r "/$myQuery/I!d" d:/myfile.txt ]

# exec command becomes: sed -r "/{XPCOM\.dll}/I!d" d:/myfile.txt

# WHERE DID THOSE CURLY BRACES COME FROM?

Good grief... Thank you for your infinite patience and another round of
enlightening advice.

-- 
Luciano ES
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