Hello Monks,

I am trying to pass a delimiter string via a command line argument like this : 
./script.pl "\t" ARG1 ARG2

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so inside the script I would like to set the $" to do some interpolation on a list like this : 
my $delim = shift @ARGV;
$" = $delim;
...
print "@list";

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but with any of the backslashed characters what prints is something like this : 
list_item1\tlist_item2\tlist_item3

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and not what I am going for which is to have the line print tab-delimited, in this case : 
list_item1   list_item2    list_item3

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I don't understand why this happens because if I set the delimiter in the script like this : 
$" = "\t"

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everything is fine. I have tried every kind of escaping or quoting I can think of and nothing seems to work.

In reply to passing delimiters on command line by Anonymous Monk

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