Re: Perl HTML confusion...

<\a> and <\div>

You are making me dizzy... now, you might not have noticed while typing too fast: slashes in closing xml and html elements go all forward, like this: /

the character sequences \a and \d may have funny side effects on stone age terminals... the first one usually rings a bell.

Cheers, Sören

Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
(hooked on the Perl Programming language)

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Re^2: Perl HTML confusion... by AI Cowboy (Beadle) on Sep 17, 2013 at 18:08 UTC
Actually, I was simply trying to find a way to type those tags, without the form thinking I was trying to type PerlMonks-approved HTML into it. Sorry for the confusion!	[reply]
Re^3: Perl HTML confusion... by marinersk (Priest) on Sep 17, 2013 at 18:34 UTC
Ah, for that I go old school: `<a>` yields `<a>`, for example.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl HTML confusion... by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Sep 17, 2013 at 18:46 UTC
whereas I recently updated to <c>-tags as in `<c>\a</c> and <c>\d</c>`: `\a` and `\d` Cheers, Sören Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere. (hooked on the Perl Programming language)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Perl HTML confusion... by marinersk (Priest) on Sep 17, 2013 at 18:51 UTC