in reply to Re^6: Win32/Linux portability
in thread Win32/Linux portability
To me that means that ...
No. Don't extrapolate from what the doc says. It says a special case is "when the PATTERN is either omitted or a literal string composed of a single space character (such as ' ' or "\x20")"
'.' is not a space character.
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