[Wellington-pm] Larry on Regexes

[Dave Moskovitz]

That would have been in the days before Unicode!

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:47, Grant McLean wrote:
> Because . doesn't match \n.  [\0-\377] is the most efficient way
> to match everything currently.  Maybe \e should match everything.
> And \E would of course match nothing.  :-)
>             --Larry Wall in <9847 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
>

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