[OT] escape a dot in perl

[Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu)]

Hello

Sorry, I know this is off topic, but maybe somebody has an answer :-)

Why does
@title = split ("\.\./", $line);
and
@title = split ("../", $line);
give me the same results.

In both cases, it splits if it sees two chars and a slash. So, It looks 
for me that the backslash does not work as escape char for the dot??

Thanks, Thomas

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