in reply to ASCII Woe

EBCDIC could have won the character code wars. In which case, a regexp such as /[A-Z]/ would include all sorts of unprintable characters...

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Re^2: ASCII Woe
by ysth (Canon) on Mar 03, 2006 at 11:40 UTC
    Um, perl runs on several EBCDIC systems. And IIRC /[A-Z]/ is special-cased to only cover the letters.

    If you feel like having your mind blown, take a look at how UTF-EBCDIC works (yes, perl uses it).

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