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- Subject: Re: Meaning of "\z" escape
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:02:21 -0300
> Just looking for a clarification of the \z escape in strings. The
> ref manual says it eats all the following whitespace characters in
> the string. By "whitespace" does it mean whitespace BEFORE or AFTER
> converting other escapes? In other words, does it swallow "\\x20" and
> "\t" ??
If it did, we would be able to write "a" as "\x\x36\x31" :)
-- Roberto
