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For the record, qx/.../  is the same as back-ticks.

Update: Merlyn is correct, of course in his post following this one. I was just trying to make a friendly connection regarding function. But the effect of different delimiters has a bearing on function. Back-peddling as fast as possible... Umm... let's just call them close relatives...

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Re: Re: Re: Executing independet commands in PERL
by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 05, 2001 at 03:47 UTC
    Almost. qx`...` would be the same as backticks. qx/.../ would have a slash for a delimiter, and hence require a different backslashing strategy. And qx'...' would have single-quote for a delimiter and not support variable interpolation or backslash escaping.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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