Trying to puzzle this one out, and it's enough fun that I wanted to share it with my fellow monks (as well as hoping that someone has an answer. :) A regex _should_ be able to do this, but I'm kinda stuck on how. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Need to 'unescape' the escaped characters
$_ = 'Goodbye\; Good luck\, and thanks for all the fish!\\n\\n';

# s/\\([;,\n])/$+/g;            # Doesn't match '\\n'
# s/\\([;,n])/$1/g;             # Matches '\\n', but turns it into 'n'
# s#\\n|\\([;,])#$1||$/#ge;     # Works, but... UGH.
# s/\\n/\n/g; s/\\(;|,)/$1/g;   # Yah, yah, shure.

print;

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So, is there a way to have the '\n' be part of the character class that's being captured? Or did I just run up against an actual limitation, and absolutely have to do it "in two parts", like one of the last two lines? 
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 -- W. B. Yeats

In reply to Regexes and backslashes by oko1

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