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On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:17:03AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote:
> > And what would "\c\c\c\c\\" do, in your opinion? ;-)
>
> My guess is ^\ + 'c' + ^\ + 'c' + '\\', i.e. ASCII 28, 99, 28, 99, 92. And
> that's what Perl does.
So you want it to be parsed kleft-to-right. But you want \c\\ to be
parsed right-to-left. Choose one.
> This still doesn't explain to me, though, hough to produce a string
> consisting solely of the character ^\.
TIMTOWTDI. chr(ord('\\')-62) (or is it 32?) is one of them.
Ilya
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