by Joost (Canon)

on Feb 02, 2005 at 09:39 UTC ( [id://427268]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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single quotes will escape all escape charater

Not completely:

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

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