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Re^3: the repetition operator does not repeat "\x00" Why?

by Hofmator (Curate)
on Oct 11, 2006 at 06:09 UTC ( [id://577532]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: the repetition operator does not repeat "\x00" Why?
in thread the repetition operator does not repeat "\x00" Why?

You are correct, Data::Dumper prints the '\0' but it is only visible in the output via something like cat -v. Nice trick btw, I didn't know about that. Thank you!

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