On 2019-12-03 17:31, Paul Procacci wrote:
When a string is specified in single quotes, perl6 (or any other
language that I'm aware of) will not evaluate or interpret an escape
character EXCEPT when the escape is follow'd by a single quote (') or
backslash(\).
These HAVE to be escaped and the interpreter HAS to account for it.
Hi Paul,
I am not finding that to be the case. Well maybe not Perl 5.
$ bash -c "echo '\'"
\
$ echo '\\\'
\\\
$ echo '\\'
\\
$ echo '\'
\
If it is on purpose and not a "feature" in Perl 6, then
the documentation should state that single quotes will
have interpretations inside of them in certain cases.
Ahh Perl 5 is a pain in the butt backslash wise!
$ perl -e "CORE::say '\\\\';"
\
And I am seeing in
https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting
Literal strings: Q
Q[A literal string]
Is the way I have been using single quotes.
So the rule is single quotes are literal, unless a backslash
in included, then use Q
Thank you for the help!
-T
