Re^2: substituting 1 escaped character for another

Also note that the backslash in the replacement part is useless and could be even misleading as someone might think that \< has a special meaning.

s/\(/</
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If there are more parentheses to replace, use the /g modifier:

s/\(/</g
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Also, in case of single character replacements, you can use transliteration:

tr/(/</
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($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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