in reply to Re: Re: is "/" a special character when using substrings??
in thread is "\" a special character when using substrings??

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:\>

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

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
(tye)Re2: is "/" a special character when using substrings??
by tye (Sage) on Jun 19, 2001 at 02:15 UTC

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

    print '\\';
print '\'';

    [download]

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

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom