First off, using the \n was wrong on my part. I'm not concerned about newlines. The key to my post was the behavior I'm seeing when using backslashes inside single-quoted strings. Please look back at the quote I pulled from the book. It is my cause of concern. It said that to get a backslash to print as part of a single-quoted string you need to use two and what I showed proved that to be false. So I'm not sure if I'm misreading what the author was saying. If you have "Learning Perl" I'm quoting the 3rd edition, page 23.

In reply to Re: Re: Problem w/ single-quoted strings by eweibust
in thread Problem w/ single-quoted strings by eweibust

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