[Wellington-pm] Larry on Regexes

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Wed Oct 13 03:47:22 CDT 2004


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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