Contributed by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 11, 2000 at 17:49 UTC
Q&A
> strings
Answer: How do I print a quotation-mark?
contributed by merlyn For all stringish things, putting a
backslash in front of the closing delimiter
reduces it to ordinary character status:
my $string = "He said, \"That's a lie!\"";
| Answer: How do I print a quotation-mark?
contributed by turnstep Use some other string delimter, such as single quote (') or qq (as in qq(...) or qq/.../):
print qq[And vroom said "Let there be nodes!" and there were nodes.\n]
+;
Use a "here-document" syntax:
print <<"WALDO";
"Where is Waldo?" asked the creature?
It replied "On the next line!"
WALDO
| Answer: How do I print a quotation-mark?
contributed by nardo You could also enclose it in single quotes. | Answer: How do I print a quotation-mark?
contributed by toolic If you just need a quote character all by itself, you can make one using the chr function:
Use the ASCII code for the double quote character ("). With chr:
print chr(34);
my $quot = chr(34);
print "This is ${quot}not$quot a quote.\n";
Use the octal or hexadecimal escape code:
print "\042";
print "\x22";
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