Leaning toothpick syndrome
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Leaning toothpick syndrome
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In computer programming, leaning toothpick syndrome (LTS) is the situation in which a quoted expression becomes unreadable because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes ("\"), to avoid delimiter collision. The official Perl documentation introduced the term to wider usage; there, the phrase is used to describe regular expressions that match Unix-style paths, in which the elements are separated by slashes /. The slash is also used as the default regular expression d
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Escape characters making an expression unreadable
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_toothpick_syndrome
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2024-01-25T15:36:35Z
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