Why don't these semi-colons need to be escaped?

JackDno7 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've written a CGI script that works even though I have the following line in there:

print "<TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>\n";
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In every other instance where semi-colons are used, I have to escape them with the \ character. Why isn't that necessary in this case?

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Re: Why don't these semi-colons need to be escaped? by no_slogan (Deacon) on May 24, 2001 at 20:07 UTC
You never need to escape semicolons. They're not special in double quoted strings.	[reply]
Re: Why don't these semi-colons need to be escaped? by davorg (Chancellor) on May 24, 2001 at 20:08 UTC
You never have to escape semicolons in quoted strings.	[reply]