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From: lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: perl 2.0 ('\\\\' eq "\\\\") bug?
Message-ID: <2478@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 18 Jul 88 18:46:25 GMT
References: <9683@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <9683@dhw68k.cts.com> bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best) writes:
: The man page for perl 2.0 states (on page 6):
: 	  String literals are delimited	by either single or double
: 	  quotes.  They	work much like shell quotes: double-quoted
: 	  string literals are subject to backslash and variable
: 	  substitution;	single-quoted strings are not.
: 			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: Perl considers '\\\\' identical to "\\\\" as evidenced by the following:
: 
: if ('\\\\' eq "\\\\") {print "equal\n";} else {print "not equal\n";};
: 
: Compare this with:
: 
: if ('\n\n' eq "\n\n") {print "equal\n";} else {print "not equal\n";};

OK, minor clarification.  Single quoted strings DO pay attention to
backslashes, but only in front of single quotes or backslashes.

Sorry, I'll fix the doc.

Larry