On Tue, 3 May 2005, John W. Krahn wrote: > The slash is not a "metacharacter". It has to be escaped because the > substitution operator is using a slash as the delimiter. If you > change the delimiter to another character then it does not have to be > escaped. Sorry, I was taking "metacharacter" to mean, in this case, "any character with special meaning in the current context".
If that doesn't describe the slash when slashes are usesd as the regex delimiter, then what would you call it? If that doesn't describe the metacharacter-esque behavior here, then what does? I still think "metacharacter" is the right term here. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
