in reply to Escape from backslash hell

Try using a different delimiter for the substitution other than "/". That tends to help cut down confusion when working with patterns that contain "/"'s. 
my $dt = '11/29/2001';
$dt =~ s|\/|\\/|g;
print qq($dt);

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Re (tilly) 2: Escape from backslash hell
by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 01, 2001 at 08:04 UTC
    If you are going to avoid "leaning toothpicks" by using a different delimiter, then you might as well drop all of the useless ones: 
    s:/:\\/:g;

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    (Note that I don't like using metacharacters which are meaningful within a substitution. Hence my avoiding the pipes.)
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