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I think it was in ed already. The POSIX ed spec says: "Any character other than <space> or <newline> can be used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the re

by mycl 6y ago

I think it was in ed already. The POSIX ed spec says: "Any character other than <space> or <newline> can be used instead of a slash to delimit the RE and the replacement."

codesnik 6y ago
and, AFAIR, in perl space and enter could be delimiters too! I think I've used it in some perlgolf task which didn't count whitespace.
- codesnik 6y ago
  and memory tricked me. Whitespace doesn't work for regex and quoting terminators.
  - kbp 6y ago
    Works in Ruby: irb(main):001:1/ puts(%r irb(main):002:1* a+ irb(main):003:0> .match? %q aaa ) true