TalsiOrah:

The ESC character is chr(27), but you're looking for chr(23). The reason? /^\027/ is looking for octal 27 which is decimal 23. You should use /^\033/ which will give you what you're looking for.

Update: I (briefly) looked around, but didn't find a link to perl documentation on escaping numbers in strings. In an expression, prefix of '0' on a number tells perl to use octal, and a prefix of '0x' tells it to use hexadecimal. In a string, it's similar, you use a prefix of '\0' for octal, and '\x' for hexadecimal.

Update 2: Perlbotics provided a link perlnumber to what I was looking for, and corrected me on the prefix used for hexadecimal in strings. I clarified the previous update accordingly. The way I worded it previously would have had people using '\0x4C' expecting an 'M', but they'd get chr(0) followed by 'x4C'.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Can't exit, except when I press ^C? by roboticus
in thread Can't exit, except when I press ^C? by TalsiOrah

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