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In article <19991119124913.F20768@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >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. He stated he expected either "\c\\" or "\c\" to produce chr(28) and found that neither of them did. He then said that in his opinion "\c\\" should do it. I infer that what he *wants* is for either of them to do it. [D:\susv2]perl -wlne "eval $_; print $@ if $@" print length "\c\\" 2 print length "\c\" Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at (eval 2) line 1, <> chunk 2. exit I lean toward considering the second of these a bug.Thread Previous | Thread Next