On 03Apr2012 12:24, m...@raf.org <m...@raf.org> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | > You need double backslashes because two things are happening. | > [...snip...] | | the best computing advice i've ever had was: | "Double the number of backslashes!" | - John Mackin
John "Iron Bar" Mackin? | he didn't even know what my problem was when he said it but he was right. | if it doesn't fix your problem, you just haven't doubled the number of | backslashes enough times. :-) | | the most backslashes i've ever needed was 16 (in an insanely useless and | insanely expensive content management system with many languages nested | inside each other). I once needed exactly 13 (some sort of quoted backticked sed invocation IIRC). These days I break that kind of thing up to reduce the quote nesting. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ When in doubt, gas it. It may not solve the problem, but it ends the suspense. - Steve Moonitz (92 Ducati 900ss) <ste...@ew.timeinc.com>
