in reply to Re^8: How to match last character of string, even if it happens to be a newline?
in thread How to match last character of string, even if it happens to be a newline?

I think it's fine as long as it's only one character and '"\n" eq "\n"'.

So portability issues seem unlikely.

Cheers Rolf
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