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hum? none of them ends with a backslash. Look again and you'll notice the slash escapes the ", and is removed by perl. The error message isn't consistent with the code provided, though.
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Re^5: doublequoted commands inside backticks on windows, perl 5.6
by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 28, 2004 at 18:50 UTC
    The error message said it with the trailing \. The quoting of the original string is improbable since if that is the literal perl source it won't work the way the OA says it does. I figure the original assignment is in single quotes or something.
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