Re^2: regex anchoring issue


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Re^2: regex anchoring issue

by BillKSmith (Monsignor)

on Feb 15, 2013 at 14:01 UTC ( [id://1018894]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Refer to charnames for a neat way to code the value of your $soh_string.

use charnames qw(:full);
$soh_string = "\N{SOH}";
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Re^3: regex anchoring issue
by kcott (Archbishop) on Feb 16, 2013 at 06:35 UTC

Thanks, Bill. I had considered that but decided not to use it due to the ambiguity I noted in my opening paragraph. Had penguin-attack wanted the single ASCII character SOH, instead of the string '<SOH>', that was covered by Ctrl-A (also noted).

[Side issue (struggling not to appear grossly pedantic): the charnames pragma has been distributed with Perl since at least v5.8.8 - the perldoc link (charnames) would provide the most recent documentation.]

-- Ken

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