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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:13:55PM -0300, Lilian Alvarenga Caravela Godoy
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> Hi everyone
>
> I am trying to learn Perl looking into some scripts.
>
> One of them has a regular expression inside.
>
> First of all, I need to know what two specific lines are doing. The code is
> bellow.
>
> $req =~ s/\r//g ;
> $req =~ s/([^\n]{72,72})\n([^\n]{1,71})\n([^\n]{1,71})$/$1\n$2$3/
>
> I know they are replacing some things but cannot understand what. Specially
> the second one.
>
> I would really appreciate if somebody could explain to me what that regular
> expression means. It is kind of an emergency.
>
> And, if someone knows a link where there is more information about regular
> expressions, I would be grateful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lilian
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