In Perl 6 the regex character escaping rule is: > Alphanumeric characters and the underscore _ are literal matches. All other characters must either be escaped

In Perl 6 the regex character escaping rule is: > Alphanumeric characters and the underscore _ are literal matches. All other characters must either be escaped with a backslash (for example \: to match a colon), or included in quotes. From http://doc.perl6.org/language/regexes http://doc.perl6.org/language/regexes