Re: should this backspace removal code be done better?

Yes, you can use the regular expression more efficiently.

{
  local $_ = "this is an\b correct usage";
  s/(.[\b])//;
  print "$_\n";
}
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Re: Re: should this backspace removal code be done better? by bart (Canon) on Oct 05, 2003 at 07:40 UTC
Have you even tried it? The OP wants to match a backspace, not a backslash followed by a "b"... /\b/ doesn't match a backspace, though, but a word boundary. You have to use it in a class to make it match. `s/.[\b]//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]