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From: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: unpack and endianness
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Date: 10 Oct 90 15:28:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: dale@convex.com's message of 9 Oct 90 17:20:43 GMT

On 9 Oct 90 17:20:43 GMT, dale@convex.com (Dale Lancaster) said:

Dale> In <9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Dale> (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

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

Dale> dml

Please do not create any non-alphanumeric metacharacters. It would
break the quoting of a pattern that might contain metacharacters using
          $pattern =~ s/(\W)/\\$1/g;
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Mark D. Baushke
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