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Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of (c)

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  Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of (c) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 07:30 +1000

#53530 — Re: How to split with "\" character, and licence copyleft mirror of (c)

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> In a raw string, the backslash is buggy (IMNSHO) when it's the last
> character.

It's an inevitable consequence of using the backslash to escape the
quote character. If instead, a raw string doubled the quote character
(like in REXX), it'd need no other escape:

r'\' --> '\\'
r'''' --> "'"

Too late to change now.

ChrisA

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