Here's my take: print 'it\'s time \\ to go';
The backslash can quote the single-quote, and hence another backslash as well for completeness, within a single-quoted string. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Greg Aiken <gai...@visioninfosoft.com>wrote: > forgive my ignorance here, but I thought single quoted, or apostrophized > [however you call this character] (‘) text strings were supposed to be > interpreted by perl in an unaltered manner. > > > > sample code, indicating how to reference a named pipe in the Win32::Pipe > module, shows something like this… > > > > “\\\\.\\pipe\\pipename” (note enclosed in quotes) > > > > I thought the excessive quantities of backslashes seemed silly, so I > instead used single quotes and tried… > > > > ‘\\.\pipe\pipename’ (note enclosed in apostrophies) > > > > only to find that my client pipe program did not work. > > > > I then did a simple test print program; > > print ‘\\.\pipe\pipename’; > > > > and I was surprised to see what actually printed to the screen was instead; > > \.\pipe\pipename (note the first \ is not shown in output!) > > > > this explained why my client pipe program was working… > > > > but it left me scratching my head to ask, “why is the backslash character > being interpreted as a special perl operator when it is found within > apostrophies?” > > > > I thought that only happened when the backslash is found within quotes, > such as (print “\x43”), which should print a capital C > > > > thanks in advance to anyone who can explain this to me. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > -- Failure is not important. How you overcome it, is. -- Nick Vujicic
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