On Jun 11, 11:05 am, tig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Paul Archer) wrote:
> The reason this works is that when you read from STDIN, you are getting
the
> newline from when the user of the program hits return. Using '=~' is
> implying a 'match', which will match the string/regexp supplied within
the
> variable's value. 'eq' means the two strings have to be exactly equal to
> each other, but your variable actually has the value of '\e\n'.
This may sound pedantic, but I mention it because it's exactly the
same error the OP made. The value is NOT '\e\n'. The value is "\e
\n". The distinction is im****tant. The first one is four characters
long - slash, e, slash, n. The second one is two characters long:
escape, newline.
Paul Lalli
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