Hi!
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> writes:
> On 4/28/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> > Add to that that ^ and @ have to be escaped
> > as \^ and \@, so you get r\^\@, and r\^\@: for the long!
>
> Is this because text is interpolated directly into a Perl regular
> expression?
It is because of a combination of simple search for special
chars like _ plus a simple translation to Perl expressions.
> Is this a feature -- letting you use Perl regular expression
> metacharacters if you know them -- or a bug? ...
Letting you use Perl regexps is definitely a feature. But whether it
is a bug that there is no way to escape some special chars -- well --
that question is yet to be decided. :-P
**Henrik