question about perl 5.6

[chris at cpan.org]

Hi, Paul.

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Johnston <paulj at ccl.umist.ac.uk> writes:

    Paul>  s/&#([0-9]*)/pack("U",\1)/eg;

    Paul> However this does not work, something to do with when the
    Paul> parentheses are passed to \1 and this is evaluate I think?

I'm not sure if this is correct, but I'd use $1 instead of \1 outside of
the expression itself.  Give that a try, perhaps?  Everything else seems
in order..

- Chris.
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