Re^2: Can't get \n or other character/translation escapes to interpolate if originally read from a data file

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in combination with quotemeta

not sure what the q|...\n...| in single quotes in your code is supposed to do, do you plan to match \ and n literally?

update

ok I got the literal \n part

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