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On to the tip: Anyone have seen code like

  print "<a href=\"http://$url/\">$site</a> (\"$title\")";

Now, it is quite annoying to read all those \'s, so you would think
there is a better way.

Well, there is! :-)

The above line could be written as 

  print qq[<a href="http://$url/">$site</a> ("$title")];

So instead of using " as the quote operator we used qq[ and ] to end
the quote.

You can also use for example qq{ (or any other form of "brackets"), like
  
  print qq{...};


Like "text" can be substituted with qq[text] you can use a single q
for ', so a confusing statement like

  '\'daily-tips-subscribe@perl.org\'' 

can be written as

  q['daily-tips-subscribe@perl.org']

instead.


For more information, run "perldoc perlop" and search for "Quote and
Quote-like Operators".


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