From: "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm tryign to do a perl -e '' command and am wondering if it is
> possible to do single quotes inside the single quotes.
> IE
>
> perl -e 'print "joe's mama";'
> Obvo=iously won't work
> perl -e 'print "joe\'s mama";'
> And any other versions of \\' all fail.
>
> Is there a way to use a single quote inside a single quoted -e
> command? Using a different character would just cause the same problem
> but with different characters right?
WHAT IS YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM AND/OR SHELL ???
This is not really a Perl question ... you need your shell/command
prompt to do something, not Perl.
If you use Windows and its cmd.exe/command.com you have to use
doublequotes. Fullstop.
perl -e "print qq{joe's mama\n}"
Jenda
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