Re: What should /\08/ match and do?

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Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
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On 1 June 2010 13:13, Abigail <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, and I've matched \0's many times - they seem to be the filler or
> separator choice of many binary format designers. I can't remember the
> last time I used an octal escape though; I would write that as /\x{00}8/,
> eliminating all kinds of possible misinterpretations.

And of course directly serialized C structures will often have null
pad bytes inserted.

Yves



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