Re: perl one liner

Tad McClellan wrote:

> Sometimes the comments answer a question, and sometimes they
> are a discussion of Perl that does not answer a question.

And often it wanders off topic :-D.

To Axel, I think the reply was a good one, since it explained that you can
use other delimiters than /, and also that the unescaped / was the problem
(maybe between the lines, I am to lazy to reload the thread).

Just showing how to escape the / misses an important point: that you don't
need to use / to delimit.

Quite some beginners don't know that:

/\/\/\// can be written as, for example m{///}
"\"\"\"" can be written as, for example qq(""")

etc.

So they produce now and then hard to read code, and moreover, can't read
some parts of code written by people who do know.

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