[OT] escape a dot in perl

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:54:52PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:
> 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.

\ is an escape character within double quotes, so "\." is identical to
".". Use '\.\./' (note single quotes) instead, or perhaps use m{\.\./}
to make it more explicit that '\.\./' is really a regular expression.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]