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On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 03:10:58AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Then you are advising that "\\nc" and "\cc" should be parsed the same, right?
It should have been, of course, \\cc vs \cc
>
> I don't get it. The first I would parse as three characters: backslash
> (the two backslashes become one), n, c. The second as one character:
> ctrl-C ("\x03").
Nope. You want two backslashes converted to one *before* \c
interpolation is done. This \\cc will behave the same as \cc.
Ilya
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