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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
April 13, 2010 16:06
Subject:
Re: Perldoc: Bad way to spell a cat (perlrequick)
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o2r51dd1af81004131605h15e8f191ib76e04fe99df5ea3@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 16:32, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
> I think the example is correct:
>
>
>    $ perl -wE 'say "\143\x61\x74"'
>    cat
>    $ perl -wE 'say "cat" =~ /\143\x61\x74/'
>    1

$ perl -Mre=debug -e '/\143\x61\x74/'
Compiling REx "\143\x61\x74"
Final program:
   1: EXACT <cat> (3)
   3: END (0)
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