Actually, Perl knows when you've used double quotes around a fixed string and changes them to single quotes internally.

$ perl -MO=Deparse -le 'print "Fixed string"'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = "\n"; }
print 'Fixed string';
-e syntax OK
$

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In my opinion, a much better reason for using single quotes for fixed strings is that it tells the next programmer to look at your code that nothing interesting is going on in that string.

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In reply to Re: In Love With Double Quotes by davorg
in thread In Love With Double Quotes by revence27

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