RE (tilly) 5: slash converter

One of the (for me) more annoying gotchas. Inside a single-quoted string, \ is still special. '\\' is just a single \, and '\'' is a single-quote.

So if you need to, by chance, wind up with \\, even with a single quote you still find yourself doing \\\\.

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RE: RE (tilly) 5: slash converter by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Oct 13, 2000 at 22:37 UTC
Weird.. `$ cat test $var = 'c:\test\file.txt'; print "$var\n"; $ perl test c:\test\file.txt` [download] Update: My bad; I see what you're saying.. It needs to examine \ because you may need single-quotes in your single-quoted string. `print '\\'; # prints "\" not "\\"` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]