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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hidden Characters in Regular Expression Matching Perl - Perl Newbie Post 302541858 by yazu on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 03:05:35 AM
Old 07-26-2011
First - you shouldn't use quotes around s/computer/WINNER/g. Second, perl allows use control chars in its strings and regexes like "\cA" for Ctrl-A.

I hope this information is enough for your assignment.

Good luck!
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