Re^2: Getopt, regexen, and newlines

The shell does indeed sanitize the arguments, unless I quote them. However, quoting them doesn't change the effect of the script, which still ends up giving me sanitized escape characters rather than newlines.

Of course, I should have mentioned as much in the original post, and I'll go add something about that as a note now. I'll rep++ you for pointing that out.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
- apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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Re^3: Getopt, regexen, and newlines by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Oct 12, 2005 at 18:58 UTC
Backslashed characters are just backslashed characters unless Perl reads them in a double-quotish context. To do that, see efficient char escape sequence substitution. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply]