On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone help me to understand this? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > use warnings; > my $s='\\n'; > print $s; > > > Output: > \n > > Expected output: > \\n > > > Jorge Almeida >
From: perldoc perlop q/STRING/ 'STRING' A single-quoted, literal string. A backslash represents a backslash unless followed by the delimiter or another backslash, in which case the delimiter or backslash is interpolated so, you'll need: my $s = '\\\\n' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/