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in reply to the repetition operator does not repeat "\x00" Why?

or using Data::Dump::Streamer:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dump::Streamer;

$_ = "\x00" x 26;
Dump($_);
$_ = "\x30" x 26;
Dump($_);

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Prints:

$VAR1 = "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
$VAR1 = '00000000000000000000000000';

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

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