Actually, Perl doesn't reinterpolate strings. Two backslashes should be enough. This sounds like a bug.

As an example, if I do: $str= "C:\\Windows" and then try to use $str in a regular expression: if(  $path =~ /^$str/i  ) { then this won't work. But that is because I made a mistake. I should have written: if(  $path =~ /^\Q$str\E/i  ) { to tell the regular expression that I wanted it to parse $str as a string and not as a regular expression. (I also made a mistake in trying to use a regular expression to compare file paths as the resulting code is not portable.)

I have a hard time coming up with cases other than regular expressions and eval where it is easy to get Perl to interpolate a string a second time. Perhaps you could do some more digging and find where this second interpolation is happening so that a fix could be made (or so I could understand why it isn't a bug in this case).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: I think I'm starting to get it by tye
in thread I think I'm starting to get it by coolmichael

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