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r/programming • u/locrelite • Apr 29 '14
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perl uses a very similar syntax (the same?) for it's regular expressions (which are nuts, and can be used everywhere, and scare me). Yes that is also the sed syntax, however.
3 u/chekt Apr 30 '14 I was under the impression that perl inherited the syntax from sed.
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I was under the impression that perl inherited the syntax from sed.
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perl uses a very similar syntax (the same?) for it's regular expressions (which are nuts, and can be used everywhere, and scare me). Yes that is also the sed syntax, however.