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in thread CTRL+C Regular Expression

Also: 
$ perl -e '"\x03" =~ /\x03/ and print "Matched!\n"'
Matched!
$ perl -e 'chr(3) =~ /\x03/ and print "Matched!\n"'
Matched!
$ perl -e '3 =~ /\x03/ and print "Matched!\n"'

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