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On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 07:26:36AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote: > > you are missing the *most important* point again: closing " is found first. > > Yes, but according to perlop/Gory Details, while searching for the closing > " of "" (or closing ^ of qq^^, etc.), the combinations \\ and \" (or \^, > etc.) are skipped. Hence, according to my understanding, "\c\\" (after the > first "pass", finding the end) turns into >>\c\\ inside ""<<; "\c\"" into > >>\c\" inside ""<<; and qq^\c\^^ into >>\c\^ inside qq^^<<. > > After this, backslash+delimiter are turned into plain delimiter (while > backslash+backslash is kept), and knowledge of the original delimiter is > lost, so the three strings become \c\\, \c" and \c^, respectively. This is how I would expect things work. > Hmmm, I think I begin to understand. No change is needed for > control-(closing delimiter), since the interpolation step doesn't see > backslashes there any more. However, I still believe that handling of \c\\ > should be changed to produce ctrl-\ instead of ctrl-\, \. This will break compatibility with $x = 'whatever'; /$x/; It is not win-win situation. Being such, I do not feel any urge to have it changed. IlyaThread Previous | Thread Next