in reply to Re^2: Compile time problem
in thread Compile time problem

Good point. I don't know when q{} (etc) made their first appearance in perl.

Just use appropriate quoting and escaping if it doesn't work, but I'm sure some Monk will appear with the answer before too long.

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Re^4: Compile time problem
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 06, 2007 at 20:58 UTC
    Guggug... q//, qq// and qx// have been present in perl4. At least in the patchlevel 36 copy I have here... ;-)

    --shmem

    _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                                  /\_¯/(q    /
    ----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
    ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}