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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: shouldn't backslash really quote?
Message-ID: <1991May23.220754.8613@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 23 May 91 22:07:54 GMT
References: <1991May22.175723.18174@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1991May22.202128.27037@convex.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
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As quoted from <1991May22.202128.27037@convex.com> by tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen):
+---------------
| From the keyboard of eichin@apollo.com:
| :if(/x_\\$$pat/) {
| :	print "found x-twoslash-dollar-pat\n";
| :} 
| 
| This time you didn't escape the $, so it's anchoring
| at the end of the line.  Shouldn't match.
+---------------

Uh, wouldn't the $$ expand to the process ID of Perl, since the backslash is
escaped?

++Brandon
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