in reply to Re^3: Regexes and backslashes
in thread Regexes and backslashes

Heh. Yeah, we could even in-line it:

s|\\([,;n])|${{',',',',';',';',n=>"\n"}}{$1}|g;

Nicely confusing. :)

I guess there really is no way to make this work with a simple char class replacement, though. Oh well.

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Re^5: Regexes and backslashes
by wind (Priest) on Feb 16, 2011 at 08:44 UTC

    Cute :)

    Slightly more condensed:

    s/\\([,;n])/${{n=>"\n"}}{$1}||$1/eg;