sorry, the perl forum i frequent shut down so im hoping i can get some help here.

my question is how do i escape the backslash "\" character?

im trying to get the name of the script thats running by spitting $0

$0 holds "C:\~robbie\bbs\test.pl"

@a=split(/\\/, $0); #this does NOT work!

any help would be appreciated
also if someone could suggest a good perl forum...