[sf-perl] qr{} question
David Alban
extasia at extasia.org
Tue May 26 12:46:55 PDT 2009
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Ronald J Kimball
<rjk-perl-p5p at tamias.net> wrote:
> You should be able to work around this bug by escaping the # with a
> backslash.
yeah, i was thrown off by the man page, which indicates i don't need to. :-)
from perlre:
The "#" character is also treated as a metacharacter introducing
a comment, just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that
if you want real whitespace or "#" characters in the pattern
(outside a character class, where they are unaffected by "/x"), that
you'll either have to escape them or encode them using octal or
hex escapes.
specifically this part:
outside a charactter class, where they are unaffected by "/x"
heh.
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