Re: [FWP] Perl Card Games

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:03:35PM -0700, Eli Evans wrote:
> Yep, it ignores them. The MS-DOS shell that ships with Win95 only allows
> command line arguments with internal spaces to be wrapped by double quotes,
> AFAIK. If I try to use single quotes, it thinks I've fed it many small
> arguments (and then usually barfs). If I want double quotes in the eval
> string, I have to escape them. Very annoying for doing things like
> 
> 	perl -e "print \"\n\""
> 

Fortunately, Perl provides the alternate quoting constructs q// and qq//
for just these occasions.  (Also qx//, qw//, and the new qr//.)

perl -e "print qq{\n}"

Ronald

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