Good afternoon Perl gurus, I have a string that I pull from an entry widget which has backslashes (which are not literals so I am assuming it's double quoted). I can't figure out how to change the string from a double quoted string to a single quoted string so I can have the backslashes when I do my reg ex. Maybe there is an easier way to do this. Here is an example of what I am trying to do: 
my $GetEnt = $ent4->get(); #Which is "test_\1_\2\_3"
print "$GetEnt\n"; 

#This give me some funny symbols for \1 \2 and \3
#I need the string to keep the backslashes
                
#Here's what I tried but it doesnt do what I want
my($text2) = "test_\1_\2_\3";
my($text3) = q{'$text2'};
print "$text3\n";

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Paul

In reply to Change double quote to single quotes by rookie_monk

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