Re: To Single Quote or to Double Quote

Hey
The main difference u will see between single quotes and double quotes is
single quotes will escape all escape charater
double quotes will act as a string and prints what ever u give inside it except perl variables
--prasanna.k

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Re^2: To Single Quote or to Double Quote by lamp (Chaplain) on Feb 02, 2005 at 17:14 UTC
Please go through quotes in Perl for more information.	[reply]
Re^2: To Single Quote or to Double Quote by Joost (Canon) on Feb 02, 2005 at 14:39 UTC
single quotes will escape all escape charater Not completely: `print 'there\'s a \' quote here, there\'s a \\ backslash here';` [download] Anyway, it works the other way around: single quotes interpret only a few escape sequences, double quotes have more (and they interpolate variables). See the section on "Quote and Quote-like Operators" in perlop. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]