Re^3: Wanted: humanly readable `script` output

Not really. Consider:

my $text = "No \x08\x08\x08 good";

$text =~ s/.\x08//g;
print $text;
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Prints:

No good
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Re^4: Wanted: humanly readable `script` output by Anonymous Monk on May 05, 2008 at 02:02 UTC
This problem with the way /g works is fixed with the 1 while hack `[james@adajio ~]$ cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl my $text = "No \x08\x08\x08 good"; 1 while $text =~ s/.\x08//; print "$text\n"; [james@adajio ~]$ ./test.pl good [james@adajio ~]$` [download]	[reply] [d/l]