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You can do many crazy things with Perl regular expressions, but many times you just need to use an escape character (or escape sequence) in a regular expression. I'm often asked what escape sequences you can use in Perl regular expressions, so without any further ado, here is a simple list of "special" characters (such as the [Tab] character) can be matched by the Perl regular expressions:

I was looking for a nice program that would let me kill a bunch of related processes on a Windows PC, similar to the way the killall command works on Linux. (I find this very useful when I'm testing apps and I have a bunch of windows open.)

Summary: How to use Perl here documents, i.e., the Perl heredoc syntax.

Perl offers a convenient way of printing multiple lines of output through an interesting feature known as a "Perl here document". A here document, or heredoc, lets you easily store multiple lines of text in a Perl variable.

A multiline Perl here document works like this:

Here are some important/useful JBuilder keyboard shortcuts to remember:

A note for me for the future: Bob Hope passed away a few days ago. I don't think most people younger than me care about this too much, but I liked his "On the Road" movies, tv specials, and what he did for the people in the military.