Re^3: Regex Search String in a Variable

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\
'
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Learned something today! :)

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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]