27 Apr
2011
27 Apr
'11
4:58 p.m.
"Tobias" == Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de writes:
Tobias> Every character is just a string of the length 1 (just like you Tobias> used it in the first place).
Not really.
That would imply $a is 'a'. And it's very much not, which is what the OP is discovering.
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