Problem with perl one-liner

LeBreton has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, i have a problem, i'm on Windows 7 with Strawberry Perl. I do : C:\Users\Documents>perl -e 'print "A"' Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. I'm not a specialist of Perl, so what do i have to do to make this work ? Thanks for your help !

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Re: Problem with perl one-liner by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 21, 2018 at 15:40 UTC
The problem is more with your shell and less with Perl. `cmd.exe` does not understand single quotes for parameters, only double quotes. So, you need to use double quotes for your Perl oneliner: `perl -e "print qq(A)"` [download] If you want to use double quotes within your Perl oneliner, I recommend using `qq()` instead. See perlop for more information on quote and quote-like operators.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Problem with perl one-liner by pryrt (Abbot) on Apr 21, 2018 at 15:39 UTC
With Windows command line, outer quotes need to be double-quotes...	[reply]
Re: Problem with perl one-liner by NetWallah (Canon) on Apr 21, 2018 at 16:56 UTC
This article on StackOverflow describes how WIndows cmd handles quotes, and provides some info on the subtle inconsistencies. Memory fault -- brain fried	[reply]