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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pattern matching on binary data
Message-ID: <8533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 29 Jun 90 00:29:06 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.142155.12170@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Jun28.142155.12170@eci386.uucp> jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
: This is mostly a precautionary tale (although Larry may decide
: to treat it is a bug report if he wishes).

I do.  $' should work on binary data.  It will be fixed in the next patch.

Larry