Re: To Single Quote or to Double Quote

[kprasanna_79]

Hey
The main difference u will see between single quotes and double quotes is
single quotes will escape all escape charater
double quotes will act as a string and prints what ever u give inside it except perl variables
--prasanna.k

[lamp]

Please go through quotes in Perl for more information.

[Joost]

single quotes will escape all escape charater

Not completely:

print 'there\'s a \' quote here, there\'s a \\ backslash here';

Anyway, it works the other way around: single quotes interpret only a few escape sequences, double quotes have more (and they interpolate variables).

See the section on "Quote and Quote-like Operators" in perlop.