-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > perl -e 'print '"'"'$ and a'"'"' ' # I don't want to use " > > You were faster than me. :)) > > > > I.e. just use the '' where you need 'em > > I actually do it vice versa: > If purely literal text is intended, i use '' where possible and > escape only '. > > That's most safe because i do not have to ponder which character > is interpreted and converted inside "" and which will stay as is. > So it is also easy to program in C.
Good insight. This was my first cut as well, but I came from a slightly different angle: starting from '...', what would an automatic transformation look like? > Have a nice day :) same to you :-) - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcxxbQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kb7cACfXYcRaA+YSDCLzaQCL6S8sJFw b4wAni2zG9YVvh0LoCyn/GyWJ8xs6LgI =/y2Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----