> 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 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>