> Dan Muey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello group.
> >
> > I'm tryign to do a perl -e '' command and am wondering if it is
> > possible to do single quotes inside the single quotes.
> > IE
> >
> > perl -e 'print "joe's mama";'
> > Obvo=iously won't work
> > perl -e 'print "joe\'s mama";'
> > And any other versions of \\' all fail.
> >
> > Is there a way to use a single quote inside a single quoted -e
> > command? Using a different character would just cause the
> same problem
> > but with different characters right?
>
> I've had this problem too, specifically when trying to run
> perl inside a Korn shell script. The following, though, will
> work for you on Win32 or *nix
> systems:
>
> $ perl -e '$q=chr(0x27);print "joe${q}s mama"'
> joe's mama
>
Beautiful Jeff, Beuatifull. I'll give that spin and see how she does.
Thanks again!
>
> -Jeff
>
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