You didn't pass a Line Feed. You passed a Backslash and a Latin Small Letter N

To Pass a Line Feed, you can use 

# tcsh
-string 'foo\
bar'

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or 
# POSIX sh, ksh, bash, dash
-string 'foo
bar'

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or 
# POSIX sh, ksh, bash, dash
-string "$( printf 'foo\nbar' )"

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or 
# bash
-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?

s/\\n/\n/g

But what if someone actually wants to provide the two characters \n? It's up to you to define your language and write a parser and interpreter for it.

And don't forget that scripts that call your program would need an escaping function to provide user input to your program.

It's far simpler to simply provide the correct string, which is why I led with that. Is there a way to have the '\n' interpreted as an actual newline character by the perl script?

In reply to Re: passing newline in string argument by ikegami
in thread passing newline in string argument by Special_K

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