Returns the value of EXPR with all non-"word" characters backslashed. (That is, all characters not matching/[A-Za-z_0-9]/ will be preceded by a backslash in the returned string, regardless of any locale settings.) This is the internal function implementing the\Q escape in double-quoted strings.
If EXPR is omitted, uses$_.
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