On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:10, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> --On 21 February 2007 10:36:52 +0000 Jeremy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> >> The simplest syntax would be if "<n" meant that newline (\n) is the
> >> separator
> >
> > That would, to me, be trying to say that "n" is the separator.
> >
> > - Jeremy
>
> So, maybe <\n would work? Or maybe use HTML entities (or some other well
> known method of representing characters), for better flexibility? eg:
> <&#064;

See the other branch. I'd also like to suggest one more thing: When the 
separator is a control character (or space), quoting by doubling should *not* 
apply, because in most cases that will not be what we want.

> Perhaps perl compatible regular expressions could work: </[\t\n]/ with
> </\// required to use a slash.

Now things are getting out of hands...

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