Re: Re (tilly) 5: UnEscaping text...

Thanx! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanx to all! Just 1 more question (if u have the time) what's the putpose of '.' in 's/\\(.)/$1/g;'

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Re??: UnEscaping text... by Hofmator (Curate) on Aug 14, 2001 at 15:48 UTC
The dot matches any character (apart from newline) in a regex. Read up on perlre to get an introduction to regexes. Or read japhy's excellent book - which is to be published next year by Manning. -- Hofmator	[reply]