From: "Derrick B." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-23T02:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment.

7stud -- wrote in post #1089925:
>> Also, I am still trying to wrap my head around the line terminating
>> error I showed you.
>
> Explain in detail what you think a \ at the end of the line does?  Well,
> maybe we need to get more basic than that: Do you know what a newline
> is?

My understanding, from a C/C++ background, is that the '\' allows for
continuation of the current line.  Combine that with my knowledge of
comments (// and /* */ in C/C++) should allow for anything following
that to be "ignored".  Perl does not behave as Ruby did when I did the
very same thing.  So, maybe I took my assumption of those to personal
ideas and definitions and expected too much from Ruby?

I so also understand that the '\' is an escape character to allow for
various things to happen:  newlines, tabs, characters to have different
meanings in strings, etc...

So, please enlighten me as to your definition, or a link to an official
definition of a newline, line continuation indicator, and anything else
that would be useful.

Thanks,

Derrick

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