> If '\\n' (3 chars) is supposed to map to a single newline, what did you want '\n' to map to? '\n' (2 chars) or 'n'?

I don't want '\n' remapped at all. The only three things that I do want remapped are \, \; \\n - everything else should just be left as is.

> A hash isn't necessary if you use y///.

But I'm not trying to replace anything like a list of similar metacharacters. The whole challenge here is that I'm dealing with a set of things that are unlike each other: two sets of literal characters and one that is a literal plus a metacharacter. I'm just wondering if they can be handled by a common mechanism; that's what I'm asking about.

Thank you for trying. 

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

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