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in thread Question on DeFoy's range operator example

but I'm still not sure why he is backslashing $,

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Re^3: Question on DeFoy's range operator example
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 28, 2019 at 11:55 UTC
    It's not needed, but doesn't hurt. `$,` is not a valid variable name in bash, but if you don't remember the bash rules, you can safely quote every $.

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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