in reply to Re^5: substituting 1 escaped character for another
in thread substituting 1 escaped character for another

Don't assume that HTML cannot have weird characters

I was scanning a web page one time and this is how one of the lines of my code ended up to be:

if ( $tmpTxt =~ /\<option value=\"$c2\.php\?blue\=(.+?)\"/ ) { # rem +oved the \> because for some there is some kind of weird character b +etween the " and the > print $filehandle $1 . "\n" ; }

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Re^7: substituting 1 escaped character for another
by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 27, 2018 at 02:22 UTC
    There are lots of possibilities - let's see what the OP has.