Commit c6e0cd03 authored by Per Buer's avatar Per Buer

Oops. Last commit was partially wrong.

Thanks scoof
parent 656cabe3
...@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ to do the "count-the-backslashes" polka::: ...@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ to do the "count-the-backslashes" polka:::
regsub("barf", "(b)(a)(r)(f)", "\4\3\2p") -> "frap" regsub("barf", "(b)(a)(r)(f)", "\4\3\2p") -> "frap"
Given that we have never been able to come up with a valid need for
any escaped characters apart from that, we decided that %22 for " and
%25 for %, was much less suffering than doubling all backslashes in
regexp/regsub contexts.
Long strings are enclosed in {" ... "}. They may contain any character Long strings are enclosed in {" ... "}. They may contain any character
including ", newline and other control characters except for the NUL including ", newline and other control characters except for the NUL
(0x00) character. If you really want NUL characters in a string there (0x00) character. If you really want NUL characters in a string there
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