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Re: TPR1 post-mortem

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From:
Keith C. Ivey
Date:
March 8, 2002 06:28
Subject:
Re: TPR1 post-mortem
Message ID:
3C8884C0.26887.14C9E336@localhost
Marcelo E. Magallon <marcelo.magallon@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>  A question of my own: why doesn't
> 
>     s/\B.\B/$&$&/g
> 
>  work as I expect, namely abcd -> abbccd.  I really can't figure it
>  out by reading the docs.

I wondered that too.  I figured it was because \B wouldn't match 
twice at the same place, but then I saw that s/\B./$&$&/g didn't work 
as expected either.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Washington, DC

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