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in thread Handling escapes while splitting lines

I don't think that will work correctly if the last character of the key is an escaped backslash. That is, 
my $string = 'a\\\\:b:c';

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The key should be 'a\' and the value 'b:c' (after removing escapes), but you'll end up with 'a\:b' and 'c'.

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Re^3: Handling escapes while splitting lines
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 19, 2005 at 13:25 UTC
    Eimi Metamorphoumai,
    Right you are. This is one of those confessions I need to make. It frustrates me when people respond to my post without having read it closely enough to see that their reply is not applicable and yet I have done the same thing here. I completely missed the part about a double backslash being a literal backslash. I was thinking that the only thing that could be escaped was the colon. Thanks for correcting me and reminding me the importance of reading carefully.

    Cheers - L~R

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