On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:22:42AM -0000, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > > OK, you got me. What is the "�" used for? For example, <?{ $�.pos > === $!ws_to }>. > > I only see that character as used in this manner (a variable name?), > never defined (e.g. as a variable or parameter) anywhere.
Something is choking on utf8, it should be a cent sign (242 is octal latin1 for '�'). $� is the current match continuation. I don't think it's specced, it's just an internal Cursor.pm thing that leaked out into STD in a few places (I could be wrong about that, though). -ryan