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in thread unknown character in between text

Because octal is octal :)

$ perl -le " printf qq{%3s %3o\n}, $_, $_ for @ARGV " 0 1 8 16 32 64 1 +28 0 0 1 1 8 10 16 20 32 40 64 100 128 200

octal: perlrebackslash, oct, sprintf, perldata

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Re^5: unknown character in between text
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2011 at 13:56 UTC
    D'oh! 127 is 177 octal, totally misread it, typical off-by-one error
      :-) Thx ... I was a bit curious. Very nice regex though!