Saying that something is "an issue" is even less informative than saying it "doesn't work." Please see I know what I mean. Why don't you?.

One potential "issue" associated with backslashes is that they are used to introduce escape sequences in double-quoted strings. (The  qq{...} in the example below is a double-quote like  "..." used because Windows quotes command-line strings with "s. Please see Quote and Quote-like Operators in perlop.)

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"print qq{hi \there \ned!};
 print 'bye \there \ned.';
"
hi      here
ed!
bye \there \ned.
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