" escape code in Perl

[MrFoxy]

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.

[progressive]

its a \ same as in javascript so

print "hello\"dave\"";

would print

hello "dave"

[The Hobo]

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

print "hello\"dave\"";

would print

hello "dave"

No, it would print:

hello"dave"

[progressive]

smart arse

[JoshT]

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

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