in reply to Re: Re: Renaming Files
in thread Renaming Files

my perl seems to be... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print 'test\n';
print "test\n";
__END__
test\ntest

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perldoc perldata

String literals are usually delimited by either single or double quotes. They work much like quotes in the standard Unix shells: double-quoted string literals are subject to backslash and variable substitution; single-quoted strings are not (except for "\'" and "\\").

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tomte

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Renaming Files
by thor (Priest) on Feb 20, 2003 at 12:36 UTC
    and mine doesn't 
    #!perl -w
print '\'
__END__
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at C:\test.pl lin
+e3

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    ...because it thinks I'm trying to escape a single quote. So, single quotes obviously do some sort of backslash interpolation. Your original point was that he didn't have to escape the \ in "c:\path\to\something". I think of it this way: nothing interpolates within single quotes, including escape sequences. If you do something like $string = 'some string\t\n', the result will interpolate to the right thing in double quotes. Now, that having been said, one can embolden perldata another way:
    String literals are usually delimited by either single or double quotes. They work much like quotes in the standard Unix shells: double-quoted string literals are subject to backslash and variable substitution; single-quoted strings are not (except for "\'" and "\\")
    I concede that I was mistaken. My apologies.

    thor

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