On Jul 13, 11:17 pm, jwkr...@shaw.ca ("John W. Krahn") wrote:
> C.DeRykus wrote:
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> That won't work as the shell will interpolate away the backslash:Not necessarily... it works on Win32's idea of a "shell" for instance :) But it doesn't hurt even there and is a good habit. > > $ echo "one two three four" | perl -F\t -lane'print "$_: $F[$_]" > for 0 .. $#F' > 0: one > 1: wo > 2: hree four > > You have to quote it: > Yes, particularly on Unix. -- Charles DeRykus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
