Re^5: splinting a line of text by comma

I had the same idea° but that's not really "escaping".

And for a general purpose solution you would need to escape \1..\7 too. I'm afraid that's not feasible with tr.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

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°) using this technique in my Wiki-nodelet-hack already

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