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Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question
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On Friday 20 September 2002 09:51 am, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:14:44PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote:
> > Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > - if it is and escape code in a string in the code, then
> > the author might have intended to have 0x0A (LF a.k.a. \n) instead.
>
> That's plausible, but the intention was more likely exactly what
> that character means to be (a non-breaking space, as mentioned
> elsewhere).
Here's what really happened. The author sent me the script in the body
of an email. The script used tabs to indent text. I copied it from my
mail client, kmail, and pasted it into my text editor, kate. Somewhere
in the process, a 5 space tab was converted into 4 non-breaking spaces
and one regular space.
The perl interpreter choked on the non-breaking space.
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