rag-sree has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I,m very much new to perl. How can I match special character \ at the end of a string?

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Re: Matching character
by mtmcc (Hermit) on Jul 21, 2013 at 15:43 UTC
    It might be useful for you to read through perlre.
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Re: Matching character
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 21, 2013 at 21:19 UTC
    You can use substr: 
    $string = 'abcd\\';
print "Matched\n" if '\\' eq substr $string, -1;

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Re: Matching character
by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2013 at 14:47 UTC 
    $str = "testing\";

$str =~ /\\$/;

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      This is easy to do when typing code directly into a node, you would catch this quickly but for the new monks:

      $str = "testing\";

      The backslash in this case will escape the double quote (") and with warnings turned on you get this:

      Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at C:\b\perlmonks\regex\1045512.pl line 4.

      Without warnings you get "Bareword found where operator expected at ..."

      use strict;
use warnings;

my $str = "testing\\";
print "matched!" if $str =~ /\\$/;

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        Lol Lotus1

        You are right. I did not test. Thanks

        All is well
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