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From:
Chas. Owens
Date:
June 29, 2010 05:15
Subject:
Re: Say/Print bug?
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:24, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <announcer voice>In the future</announcer voice>, the docs will
>> hopefully make this clearer. Currently [perlopquick][1] says
>>
>> To place a C<'> inside the string, you must escape it with C<\>:
>>
>> my $quote = 'He said \'I like quotes.\'';
>
>
> To place a delimiter inside the string, not necessarily C<'>
>
> my $quote = 'He said \'I like quotes.\'';
> my $quote = q.He said 'I like quotes\.'.;
The general single quote mechanism is handled in a different section
(=head2 q(X) rather than =head2 'X').
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Chas. Owens
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