On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:16:07AM +1000, Brendon Oliver wrote:
> In a single-quoted string: '\\' or q{\\}
> In a double-quoted string "\\\\" or qq{\\\\}
Actually only the second set will work. single quotes don't have
variable interpolation but they still do have escaped characters like
\n. So \\\\ is still required for single quotes.
[breser@titanium breser]$ perl
print q{\\},$/
__END__
\
[breser@titanium breser]$ perl
print q{\\\\},$/
__END__
\\
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