Oh, dear. I guess I'm extra awful at explaining what I mean tonight. Pity; I suppose the only thing left is to shoot myself and get it over with. :)

Your example does indeed result in the above output - but that's not what I'm looking for. I would like for the escaped semicolons to be converted to non-escaped semicolons; for escaped commas to be converted to non-escaped commas; and for escaped newlines to be converted to actual newlines. Metacharacters, not literal '\n's. Ones that actually result in newlines being produced on the screen when a line is printed - i.e.,

Line 1:Goodbye; Good luck, and thanks for all the fish!
Line 2: 

and NOT

Line 1:Goodbye; Good luck, and thanks for all the fish!\n\n

(I'm not trying to come across as being snarky; I'm just trying to make *sure* that I'm getting across what I mean, since I've obviously failed to do so before now.) 

-- 
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
 -- W. B. Yeats

In reply to Re^2: Regexes and backslashes by oko1
in thread Regexes and backslashes by oko1

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