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RE: String Literals in Perl

by tye (Sage)
on Aug 02, 2000 at 19:50 UTC ( [id://25754]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to String Literals in Perl

A fine node with one mistake:

print 'blah\\blah',"\n";

prints "blah\blah". To put a literal \ in a Perl single-quoted string, you should use \\, just like with double-quoted strings. If the character after a \ (in a single-quoted string) doesn't happen to be ' or \, then the \ is preserved. But using this fact often leads to confusion like the mistake in your post, so I discourage people from doing that.

I really wish Perl had used '' (two adjacents 's) to quote ' inside of 's. But my time machine is broken.

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