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Subject: Re: [9fans] sam command language
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2003 15:16:42 -0400
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| just what we need -- more characters to escape in regular expressions.
| if you're going to change anything, it makes more sense to sully ^ and $
| even further.

Alternatively, do what perl does:  punctuation uses backslash
to turn the magic off, letters use punctuation to turn it on.
So \a and \z could be the end markers.  You'd seldom type
that, so they're free to use.