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From: cimarron@erewhon.postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Cimarron D. Taylor </>)
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Subject: Re: unpack and endianness
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 | From: dale@convex.com (Dale Lancaster)
 | Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
 | Subject: Re: unpack and endianness
 | Date: 9 Oct 90 17:20:43 GMT
 | 
 | I would rather see \* match everything and \e be ESC as it is in
 | other utilities. And maybe \!* matches nothing? :-)
 | 
 | dml

	But doesn't \* already mean "turn off the special meaning of *".
	i.e.  match only an asterix?

	Cimarron Taylor
	Electronics Research Laboratory / POSTGRES project
	University of California, Berkeley
	cimarron@postgres.berkeley.edu