It's not true as Perl converts the unnecessary double quotes to single quotes as it compiles your code. Of course, you could argue that this conversion takes time, but it's going to be negliable.

But I always make a point of using single quotes when that's what is needed. Not for the compiler, but for my maintenance programmer (who might very well be me in a few months time). In my opinion, putting double quotes around a string is a single to the programmer that "something" is going on in that string and that you need to be a bit more careful when changing the contents of that string.

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In reply to Re: Single Quotes Versus Double Quotes by davorg
in thread Single Quotes Versus Double Quotes by Spidy

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