One thing you have to remember though is that if you're assigning \ to a string that it does interpolate in single quotes. Eg:

# uninterpolated string
my $string = '\\\\ double escape \single escape';

# print it
print "$string\n";

# outputs - "\\ double escape \single escape"

# do your replace
$string =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;

# print it again
print "$string\n";

# output is '\\\\ double escape \\single escape'
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$string = '\hello';

# and

$string = '\\hello';
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Ow, my head hurts...

cLive ;-)

Actually in all this, I came to the realisation tht you can do:
$scriptSource =~ s/\\/&\#92;/g;

You'll notice that I hadn't used the semi-colon. That worked just fine and was great. Thanks for the help though I didn't realise how wierd all that could get.


CiceroLove


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