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We have already encountered the \n "escape sequence" which can come inside strings and designates a newline character. There are many others in perl. Here is a list of the most important ones:
Here's an example to illustrate some of them:
print "I said \"hi!\" to myself, and received no reply.\n"; print "This program will cost you \$100 dollars.\n"; print "The KDE\\GNOME holy war makes life in the Linux world " . "more interesting.\n";
whose output is:
I said "hi!" to myself, and received no reply. This program will cost you $100 dollars. The KDE\GNOME holy war makes life in the Linux world more interesting.
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Written by Shlomi Fish