" escape code in Perl

A simple question:

Whats the escape code for a " in a Perl string? I need it as HTML uses "s, and my Perl script would obviously treat it as the end of the string parameter as just a ", which would mess up the HTML.

Thanks in advance.

its a \ same as in javascript so

print "hello\"dave\"";

would print

hello "dave"

;)

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Originally posted by progressive
its a \ same as in javascript so

print "hello\"dave\"";

would print

hello "dave"

;)

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No, it would print:

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hello"dave"

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:p

smart arse ;)

You can also used ' to delimit strings - then you only need to escape the ' and \, but you lose variable interpolation:

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print 'Hello "Dave"' . "\n";

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