> Could you kindly explain to me about the @ character and why it needs to
be
> escaped, or in what conditions it needs to be escaped? Eg. you seem to
imply
> that it only needs to be escaped if followed by an alphabetic character.
Is
It seems to be a Perl thing, if it sees @name in a regex it seems to be
taking 'name' as a variable name or macro name or some such. Can lead to
some really strange and hard to diagonose lint errors, or sometimes to a
regex that just doesn't hit on anything.
I'm not absolutely sure what @name in a regex really means to perl, but it
seems to not be what I usually expect. Escaping the @ ends up producing the
right results.
Loren
