On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:55:03 +0200
Gergely Buday <[email protected]> wrote:
> Notice that in order to put a literal backslash into a perl string,
> you should escape it. In your original program, you have put a \b, a
> bell character into the string.
Actually, "\b" is the backspace character. The bell or alarm character
is "\a". You can this in the output. It prints 'C:', then backs up one
character and prints 'uild.txt', giving the result:
Cuild.txt
For details, see `perldoc perlop` and search for /Quote and Quote-like
Operators/.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:41:04 +0530
midhun <[email protected]> wrote:
> $cs_project = "C:\build.txt"; ## In Double quotes takes the string as
> C:build.txt.since its an escape character
The string is "C:\x{08}uild.txt" (see above).
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