On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tim Miller wrote:
:I have been told that every entry in the taboo sections must have the
:character '/' at the start and end of the string you are looking for (like
:below). Is that true and if so why?
It's a perl regular expression, and perl uses "/" by default to enclose
the pattern being matched.
:I am also told that email addresses must be formatted like the below
:example. Again, if this is true, why?
:
:/address\@nowhere.net/
perl requires "@" in email addresses to be "escaped," to avoid any
ambiguity, as "@" has a sepcial meaning in perl (it indicates an array).
Patrick
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