O' Perl Monks, I pray that you lend me your aid in my time of confusion. O' Perl Monks, help me see the error of my ways O' Perl Monks, why does this happen?

I'm writing a script that has to pass a command to the terminal using system(). My problem is that the filehandle looks something like this 

 $fileHand = "folder\012614ESA YADDA_(YADDA).txt"; 

print $fileHand."\n";

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The output: 
 $ folder

614ESA YADDA_(YADDA).txt

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What's going on here? Is "\012" a secret newline character? O Perl Monks, I bless you. My file names will be numeric as such, if I escape the backslash every time, do I run the risk of screwing something up?

In reply to Blackslash confusion and newlines by pimperator

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