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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: s///e bizarreness
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.001308.16248@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Jan 91 00:13:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan03.123139.13432@convex.com> <1991Jan3.232855.7457@NCoast.ORG> <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
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| In article <1991Jan3.232855.7457@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| : You can say *that* again!  I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the
| : "/ee" and its result.
| 
| You think YOU were surprised!
| I just about broke my jaw on the keyboard.
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I can believe it!  Amazing what one can produce without realizing it.  ;-)

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| Hmm.  I wonder if the ii option should make it twice as case insensitive...
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Should /oo make it not evaluate the RHS at all?  If so, what should /ooo do?
;-)  

++Brandon
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