Re^2: Regex Search String in a Variable

I think the easiest way to put it, is that backslash is the escape character for literal strings as well as for regex meta-characters.

This means they need to be doubled for each step.

Even in single quoted strings, since they allow escaping the delimiter.

AFAIK are here-docs the only way to avoid the need of self-escaping a \

Cheers Rolf
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Re^3: Regex Search String in a Variable by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 03, 2021 at 01:22 UTC
AFAIK are here-docs the only way to avoid the need of self-escaping a \ Actually, I was not aware of this, but yeah: `Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Sun 05/02/2021 21:06:46 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings my $s = <<'EOT'; \b\\o\\\f\\\\f\ EOT print "'$s' \n"; $s = q/\q\\u\\\u\\\\x\ /; print "'$s' \n"; ^Z '\b\\o\\\f\\\\f\ ' '\q\u\\u\\x\ '` [download] Learned something today! :) Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Regex Search String in a Variable by LanX (Saint) on May 03, 2021 at 12:37 UTC
Well it's like reading a doc (sic), just w/o needing a filehandle. Alas we need to chomp it to get rid of a newline. Putting it in the `__DATA__` section would do as well, but this is reading from an filehandle, but w/o need to open it first. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]