in reply to slashes in single-quoted string

For me, its enough to have a personal rule that if a string contains ' (or " when I'm interpolating), I then use the q and qq operators. This way I never have to escape a character in a string.

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Re^2: slashes in single-quoted string
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 29, 2011 at 21:49 UTC
    > This way I never have to escape a character in a string. 

      DB<100> print q{\n}
\n
  DB<101> print q{\\n}
\n
  DB<102> print q{\\\n}
\\n

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    Cheers Rolf

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