PERL for biologists
List of escape characters used in PERL:
- \a Alarm/bell
- \b Backspace
- \B Non-word boundary
- \c[ control character
- \d digit
- \D Nondigits
- \e Escape
- \E Ends upper or lower case conversion started by \L or \U
- \f Formfeed
- \l Next character is translated to lower case
- \L Next characters are converted to lower case until \E
- \n Newline
- \r Carriage return
- \s Whitespace character (blank, tabulator)
- \S Nonwhitespace character
- \t Tabulator
- \u Next character is translated to upper case
- \U Next characters are converted to upper case until \E
- \w Alphanumeric character
- \xfa Hexadezimal number
- \034 Octal Character
- \\ Backslash
- \" Double quote
- ^ Beginning of line
- $ End of line
© Kurt Stüber 2001.