Re: Comparison against backslash obtained via .substring

[Dave Kemper]

Hi onf,

Parsing strings that contain escapes is something that an open groff
bug report (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62264) seeks to make more
consistent.  Does the mechanism proposed in that report sound like it
would solve the problem you're facing?  (By default, the savannah bug
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