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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Ilya Zakharevich 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 left-to-right. But you want \c\\ to be
> parsed right-to-left. Choose one.
Not quite. I want '\\' to be translated to \ in a previous pass, before
the \c mechanism sees it. After the '\\' -> \ pass, I want left-to-right.
> > 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.
Well, and "\0x1c" and "\034" work, of course. I was just disappointed that
ctrl-\ seems to be the only character that's difficult to produce in \c
notation.
Cheers,
Philip
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