However, the double-quotes will convert the '\\' to a '\', since '\' is a meta-character. You might try using single quotes instead:

1. I think that's exactly what that he wants. But then he should just use forward slashes, since they work just the same even under Windows,
2. '\' is a meta charachter in single quoted strings too:

$ cat foo
print '\\';
$ perl -l foo
\
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