Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!zardoz!dhw68k!bob From: bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: perl 2.0 ('\\\\' eq "\\\\") bug? Message-ID: <9683@dhw68k.cts.com> Date: 15 Jul 88 17:57:35 GMT Reply-To: bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best) Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA) Lines: 17 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";}; -- Bob Best uucp: ...{trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!bob InterNet: bob@dhw68k.cts.com