On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:57:42PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >b) 'a\"b' was printing being stored as a\"b and not a"b
>
> The patch for the first looks good, but I'm not sure about the
> second. Have we settled on the behavior of single-quoted strings?
Don't know about "settled" but I suggest that the previous behaviour
was the correct one. The only characters that should be escaped in a
single quoted strings are C<'> and C<\>. Anything else is literal.
e.g.
'foo\'bar\\ping\"pong' => foo'bar\ping\"pong
^ ^ ^
yep yep nope
A
