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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
April 12, 2007 07:18
Subject:
Re: perlrebackslash
Message ID:
20070412161657.39717b47@pc09
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:23:12 +0200, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
>
> Following last months document about RE character classes, here's a
> document about the backslash.
Nice reading ...
> =head2 The backslash
>
> In a regular expression, the backslash can perform one of two tasks:
> it either takes away the special meaning of the character following it
> (for instance, C<\|> matches a vertical bar, it's not an alternation),
> or it is the start of a backslash or escape sequence.
>
> The rules determining what it is are quite simple: if the character
> following the backslash is a punctuation (non-word) character (that is,
> anything that is not a letter, digit or underscore), then the backslash
[0-9A-Za-z_], or are unicode letters allowed?
> just takes away the special meaning (if any) of the character following
> it.
>
> If the character following the backslash is a letter or a digit, then the
[0-9A-Za-z]
> sequence may be special; if so, it's listed below. A few letters have not
> been used yet, and escaping them with a backslash is safe for now, but a
> future version of Perl may assign a special meaning to it. However, if you
> have warnings turned on, Perl will issue a warning if you use such a sequence.
> [1].
/me now is intrigued by what \_ would mean.
pc09:/home/merijn 103 > perl -wle'print"\_"'
_
pc09:/home/merijn 104 > perl -wle'print qr/\_/'
(?-xism:_)
pc09:/home/merijn 105 >
So, the start of this paragraph should include the underscore?
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