Since according to p. 25 of "Programming Perl" by Wall, "." stands for "any
character except newline" and "\n" stands for "newline", and [<set>]
matches "any character in <set>", I thought you could use "[.\n]" to match
"any character":
>>>
$string = 'abc';
if ($string =~ /([.\n])/)
{
print "yes: $1\n";
}
else
{
print "no\n";
}
>>>
But this prints out "no". It turns out that inside the square brackets,
"." represents the period character and not "any character"; if you change
string to "a.bc", the script print "yes: ." . In that case, how do you
represent "any character" inside a regexp?
-Bennett
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