On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:23:29PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > Why do you have to use "\00" and then split on only "\0"? I understand that > they are just markers to split by, but I'm missing something about the > escaping.
oh... I don't know if that is required or habit. Inside a sed search and replace expression (for historical reasons) \1 is the first grouping \2 is second, etc... upto \9. If you want a literal character from the sed's that support the operation \ and two or three digits is an octal number which you want substituted. inside a perl string there is no non-sense like that, so "\0" works, you don't need multiple digits. -- GPG key: http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/gpg/msimons.asc Fingerprint: 524D A726 77CB 62C9 4D56 8109 E10C 249F B7FA ACBE
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