Monks,

I have what I thought was a simple problem, but I've been playing with it for a good while now and can't see my way through it - I'm hoping that someone here will have some suggestions.

I'm trying to convert literal strings, for example '\n', into their respective escape characters, such that the resulting character is interpreted as a newline.

I've tried (among many other things) evaling the literal, using sprintf on the literal and attempting to substitute the literal for an evaluated character (s/(\\\w)/$1/e), but none of these seem to do the trick - I either end up with the string I had before, or an undefined variable.

Does anyone know of a way to convert like this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-- Foxcub
A friend is someone who can see straight through you, yet still enjoy the view. (Anon)

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