On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:13:22PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> the following would be equivalent:
>
> $a = "foo\r\n";
> print $a;
> print _$a;
> print eval(repr($a));
>
> That's probably a poor example of its utility, but I'm not as well
> versed in python to give repr() its due in a perl example.
sub repr { my $str = shift; qq{"\Q$str\E"} }
or, Perl6ish:
sub repr ($str) { qq{"\Q$str\E"} }
Dunno what it's useful for, but Perl's got it.
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