forgive my ignorance here, but I thought single quoted, or apostrophized
[however you call this character] (') text strings were supposed to be
interpreted by perl in an unaltered manner.sample code, indicating how to reference a named pipe in the Win32::Pipe module, shows something like this. "\\\\.\\pipe\\pipename <file:///\\\pipe\pipename> " (note enclosed in quotes) I thought the excessive quantities of backslashes seemed silly, so I instead used single quotes and tried. '\\.\pipe\pipename' (note enclosed in apostrophies) only to find that my client pipe program did not work. I then did a simple test print program; print '\\.\pipe\pipename'; and I was surprised to see what actually printed to the screen was instead; \.\pipe\pipename (note the first \ is not shown in output!) this explained why my client pipe program was working. but it left me scratching my head to ask, "why is the backslash character being interpreted as a special perl operator when it is found within apostrophies?" I thought that only happened when the backslash is found within quotes, such as (print "\x43"), which should print a capital C thanks in advance to anyone who can explain this to me.
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