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- Subject: Re: new string functions (was Re: Standard Libraries....)
- From: Tony Finch <dot@...>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:37:46 +0000
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, David Manura wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Vaughan McAlley wrote:
> > 2010/1/18 Majic:
> >> WHAT IS THIS G?!
> > Global, I think (not to be confused with global variables :-) )
>
> I've asked that too. Maybe it's something to add to the manual.
> To quote the Lhf, "The name gsub was taken from AWK, way back in Lua
> 2.5." You also see a variant of it (/g) make its way into Perl.
The g in "grep" has the same etymology.
Tony.
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