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Just for the fun of it, I tried it under 5.6.0 on NT:
D:\>perl -le "print '\\'"
\
And under VMS:
KES-JPEACOCK> perl -le "print '\\'"
\
Hmmm, appears to be a Unix only thing. It is likely that the Unix
shell is causing problems since there is no problem when running in
the debugger:
[root@vir named]# perl -lde 1
Default die handler restored.
Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.07
Editor support available.
Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
main::(-e:1): 1
DB<1> print '\\'
\
John Peacock
"Casey R. Tweten" wrote:
>
> Today around 4:19pm, Ronald J Kimball hammered out this masterpiece:
>
> : On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:11:38PM -0500, WWW server user wrote:
> : > A _very_ simple perl program:
> : >
> : > print '\';
> : >
> : > causes
> : > "Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at blah line 1."
> :
> : That is the correct behavior. The backslash escapes the second quote, so
> : you are missing the terminating quote.
> :
> : Perhaps you meant to escape the backslash?
> :
> : print '\\';
>
> I expected this to work too but:
>
> [ctweten@ctweten ctweten]$ perl -le "print '\'"
> Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
> [ctweten@ctweten ctweten]$ perl -le "print '\\'"
> Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
> [ctweten@ctweten ctweten]$ perl -le "print '\\\'"
> \
> [ctweten@ctweten ctweten]$
>
> This is behavior in bleadperl, 5.6 and 5.5.3 I would consider:
>
> print '\\';
>
> to be broken.
>
> --
>
> print(join(' ', qw(Casey R. Tweten)));my $sig={mail=>'crt@kiski.net',site=>
> 'http://home.kiski.net/~crt'};print "\n",'.'x(length($sig->{site})+6),"\n";
> print map{$_.': '.$sig->{$_}."\n"}sort{$sig->{$a}cmp$sig->{$b}}keys%{$sig};
> my $VERSION = '0.01'; #'patched' by Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit at MIT dot EDU>
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