On February 24, 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> This is one of those silly moments when I can't remember a simple
> trick, and I'm too cotton-pickin' lazy to dig through all my Perl
> books to find it. I'm maintaining some old DOS code that has pathed
> Linux filenames suffering from LTS. you know...
> \/usr\/local\/fardle\/whang\/dang\/doodle\/etc.....
In what context do you think you need those backslashes?
In a regular string, you can do 'foo/bar/baz'.
In a regex, you can use the special quoting construct:
$_ =~ m{/foo/bar/baz};
-- Eric
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