>>>>> "You" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You> I don't understand the regex s#.*/##s
You> (given as part of the solution to problems 2 and 3)
You> more specifically, I don't know what the last 's' does
You> to the regex.
As others have said, the trailing "s" allows newline to be matched:
otherwise, we'd have a potential security hole with a false assumption
that we've stripped the pathname down to the base filename, since Unix
paths can contain newline.
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