in reply to setting password on remote machine

You need 4 backslashes, since they are escaped within double quotes.

$Server = "\\\\muskrat";

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Re^2: setting password on remote machine
by tadman (Prior) on Aug 10, 2001 at 04:54 UTC
    They are escaped in single quotes, qw, qq, and a slew of others. Is there any way to turn this off? Just curious.
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      Not if you ever want to use the string delimiter in the string:

      my $example = 'don\'t try this at home';

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