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Re: RFI: Trailing blanks
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: RFI: Trailing blanks |
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27 Aug 2001 13:23:47 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> So we are looking for specially non special characters. @address@hidden
Paul> Any repeated character will make the string more likely.
Paul> How about @&address@hidden That would be easy to remember as expanding to
Paul> the empty string, as the mnemonic would be "amp tee". (Here's
Paul> where I duck to avoid being hit by a tomato....)
& is special: I've been bitten by this AWK program:
gsub ("@comment.*", "@&t@", line);
which of course had the result of prefixing with @, suffixing with &@.
I backlashed it and it works, but do we want to keep sth like this?
- RFI: Trailing blanks, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/17
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Raja R Harinath, 2001/08/17
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Paul Eggert, 2001/08/17
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/17
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/08/17
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, akim, 2001/08/18
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/08/18
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Paul Eggert, 2001/08/22
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Paul Eggert, 2001/08/22
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/27
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Paul Eggert, 2001/08/27
- Re: RFI: Trailing blanks, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/29
- Re: Algol 68 (was: RFI: Trailing blanks), Paul Eggert, 2001/08/29