I have the following perl script: 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Getopt::Long;

my $string;

GetOptions( "string=s"     =>    \$string
);

printf("string = $string\n");

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I have the following shell script that calls the above perl script: 


#!/bin/tcsh

/home/perl_scripts/pass_newline_as_text.pl \
    -string 'foo\nbar'

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The output I would like to see is as follows: 


string = foo
bar

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The actual output I'm seeing is the following: 


string = foo\nbar

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Is there a way to have the '\n' interpreted as an actual newline character by the perl script? I've tried enclosing the string in single and double quotes, and using 1-3 backslash escapes on the 'n' character but none of those work.

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