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Re: [ID 19991118.014] Error producing ^\ (chr 28) with "\c\\"

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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
November 25, 1999 22:45
Subject:
Re: [ID 19991118.014] Error producing ^\ (chr 28) with "\c\\"
Message ID:
19991126014557.B13326@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 04:55:59AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote:
> OK. I see what you mean now. No, I suppose I don't want that. I suppose
> what I want was expressed, more or less, by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> elsewhere in this thread. Something along the lines of having \-conversion
> (\n \f etc.) done in parallel with \c-conversion, and having \c\ do
> roughly the same thing as \c if the following character is either a
> backslash or the closing delimiter, e.g. "\c\\", "\c\"", qq^\c\^^.

you are missing the *most important* point again: closing " is found first.

Ilya
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