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Re^2: Backslashes in command arguements

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Feb 26, 2007 at 17:24 UTC ( [id://602176]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Backslashes in command arguements
in thread Backslashes in command arguements

Your double backslash on the command line ("foo.pl \\hostname") may be converted to a single backslash when Perl gets it

No. 

>perl -e "print $ARGV[0]" \\hostname
\\hostname

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If there's a slash missing, it was removed *before* Perl got it.

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