Don't forget that \ is also special inside single quotes. It is special in all of Perl's quote-like operators except for qw() and single-quoted here-docs (so that adds qx(), tr///, and double-quoted and back-quoted here-docs). (updated)

I'm going to assume that this is true of at least 5.6 and beyond, or that I'm finding a bug here:

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for MSWin32-x86-object
...

C:\>perl
print 'hello\n';
print "hello\n";
^D
hello\nhello

C:\>
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Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain

I said \ is special inside single quotes. I didn't say that \n means newline inside of single quotes. Try this:

print '\\';
print '\'';
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Update: The canonical test for whether \ is special is to see if \\ ends up giving you one \ or two.

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