OK, first off, I'm a bit confused, because your first line says 'Testing\z'. Perhaps you meant 'Testing\n' ?

With that out of the way, you are missing something -- or rather, the document you just quoted is missing something.

It handles three cases:

  1. Any character OTHER than a backslash or termination character is inserted literally. (The termination character is normally ' but may differ if q// is used.)
  2. Any backslash followed by the termination character inserts the termination character.
  3. Any backslash followed by a backslash inserts a backslash.
What it doesn't tell you is the fourth case:
  1. Any backslash followed by a character OTHER than the termination character or a backslash inserts a backslash and that literal character.
The reason for the double-backslash thing is in case you wanted to include a backslash at the end of the string. For example: 
$foo = 'C:\\'; # if you had 'C:\' then the ' would instead be escaped 
+instead of ending the string.

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--Stevie-O 
$"=$,,$_=q>|\p4<6 8p<M/_|<('=>
.q>.<4-KI<l|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$,
.=pack'N*',"@{[unpack'C*',$_]
}"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z]
         {}cd;print lc

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

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