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Re: Syntax for tab character


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Syntax for tab character
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:16:29 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Bill Gradwohl <bill@ycc.com> writes:

> The $' inside the [] is being used up but not in any way I expected.
> Clearly, $'\t' is not representing a tab character, nor is it just using
> the $ as a character in its own right. What is it doing?

Since $parameter does not contain any tab characters there is no tab
character to strip off.

Andreas.

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