perl on Windows 2000

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

It does not work when i type 'perl -e 'print "xxx\n";' on DOS console. But it works when runing 'perl t.pl' (put same code into t.pl file. Thanks for any help. Error message such as: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

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Re: perl on Windows 2000 by perlplexer (Hermit) on May 10, 2002 at 14:19 UTC
On Windows you need to use " instead of ' Windows : `perl -e "print 'howdy!'"` UNIX : `perl -e 'print "howdy!"'` --perlplexer	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: perl on Windows 2000 by Dog and Pony (Priest) on May 10, 2002 at 15:05 UTC
In DOS you need to exchange the single quotes with double quotes, like so: `perl -e "print \"xxx\n\";"` [download] As you can see, this also means that you need to escape double quotes inside your code with backslashes if you want to use them. Or use single quotes if you don't need the interpolation. You have moved into a dark place. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.	[reply] [d/l]