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From: dale@convex.com (Dale Lancaster)
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Subject: Re: unpack and endianness
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Date: 9 Oct 90 17:20:43 GMT
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In <9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>Because . doesn't match \n.  [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match
>everything currently.  Maybe \e should match everything.

>And \E would of course match nothing.   :-)

>Larry

I would rather see \* match everything and \e be ESC as it is in
other utilities. And maybe \!* matches nothing? :-)

dml