Re: [MacPerl] weird MacPerl crash

[rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball)]

Ronald J. Kimball wrote:
> 
> Carl Johan Berglund wrote:
> > 
> > - I had written a DOS path ending with a \ just before a " - Bad Idea:
> > 
> > my $path = "D:\BLAH\BLAH\";
> > 
> 
> Using single backslashes as separators in a double-quoted string is a Bad
> Idea in and of itself.  For example, in the above path, you have two
> backspace characters.
> 

P.S.  Rather, if those had been lowercase B's, \b would give you a
backspace.  Anyway, be careful with backslashes, that's my point.  :-)

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