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lib/B/Deparse.pm: Add comment
authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:13:34 +0000 (14:13 -0700)
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:18:48 +0000 (21:18 -0700)
lib/B/Deparse.pm

index 668e6bd..7ae8ccc 100644 (file)
@@ -4597,7 +4597,8 @@ sub escape_str { # ASCII, UTF8
     my($str) = @_;
     $str =~ s/(.)/ord($1) > 255 ? sprintf("\\x{%x}", ord($1)) : $1/eg;
     $str =~ s/\a/\\a/g;
-#    $str =~ s/\cH/\\b/g; # \b means something different in a regex
+#    $str =~ s/\cH/\\b/g; # \b means something different in a regex; and \cH
+                          # isn't a backspace in EBCDIC
     $str =~ s/\t/\\t/g;
     $str =~ s/\n/\\n/g;
     $str =~ s/\e/\\e/g;