title: What is the purpose of "\c" in perl?
body: <p>What does \c do in perl? I tried looking for it everywhere but the support for perl is not so good as compared to other languages. Everywhere that i looked it showed that it is a control statement and its syntax is \cX where x can be any character. But that doesn't explain anything. So can anyone please explain what does it do and how to use it?</p>