Re^5: double quote vs single quote oddities. I need enlightenment

[furry_marmot]

In non-interpolated strings, a double-backslash is interpreted as a single back slash.

print '\\.', "\n", '\.', "\n";
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\.
\.

If you look at the docs for split, it specifically says it's expecting a /PATTERN/. So it interprets both '\\.' and '\.' as /\./.

--marmot