RosettaCodeData/Task/Literals-String/Perl/literals-string.pl

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Perl

'c'; # character
'hello'; # these two strings are the same
"hello";
'Hi $name. How are you?'; # result: "Hi $name. How are you?"
"Hi $name. How are you?"; # result: "Hi Bob. How are you?"
'\n'; # 2-character string with a backslash and "n"
"\n"; # newline character
`ls`; # runs a command in the shell and returns the output as a string
q/hello/; # same as 'hello', but allows custom delimiters, eg: q(hi) and q!hi!
qq/hello/; # same as "hello", but allows custom delimiters, eg: qq{$hi} and qq#hi#
qw/one two three/; # same as ('one', 'two', 'three'); constructs a list of the words
qx/ls/; # quoted execution, same as `ls`
qr/regex/; # creates a regular expression
<<END; # Here-Document
Hi, whatever goes here gets put into the string,
including newlines and $variables,
until the label we put above
END
<<'END'; # Here-Document like single-quoted
Same as above, but no interpolation of $variables.
END