[oclug]perl mailing question

[Dave O'Neill]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:32:15PM -0500, Ian Wormsbecker wrote:
> On November 13, 2002 06:39 am, gabriel wrote:
> > you need to escape the @ (\@) in the $recipient variable.  also, i'd
> > suggest using " instead of ' to define variables.
> 
> I was under the impression that using '  ' meant that I did not have to escape 
> the @.
>
> I thought that either one of these would work
> $recipient = 'i.wormsbecker at uleth.ca'
> $recipient = "i.wormsbecker\@uleth.ca"

Correct.  ' ' are non-interpolating quotes, so you can have Perl special
chars $, %, @, in those strings as literals without the need to escape them.

-dave0
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    //\                                                        dmo at acm dot org
    v_/_ perl -e 's   g#fmtrxoxpajashaj#fpagjaphgxoxg.s   g....g\U$&\ngxoxg.print'