[lug] Perl question: how to print embedded metacharacters

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Chip,

Can you do this instead?

my $kw = "abc\ndef";

If not, can you explain in enough detail that I can try again? :-)

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chip Atkinson <chip at pupman.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on a perl script that reads strings from a configuration file
> and prints them out.  What I'd like to be able to do is have any embedded
> metacharacters interpreted but I'd like to avoid doing the substitutions
> myself.
>
> For example, here is a little script to emulate the problem:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> my $kw = 'abc\ndef';
>
> print "$kw";
> ----------------------
> the output is
> abc\ndef
>
> What I want is
> abc
> def
>
> --------------
> I tried to jfgi but no joy.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chip
>
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