On 7 April 2016 at 07:20, Jonathon Fernyhough <jonat...@manjaro.org> wrote:
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> qq{} obviously wins when there would otherwise be a lot of escaping, but
> are there any downsides of using this method more generally (other than
> double-quotes being two characters shorter)? For example, is it "faster"
> for Perl to parse a double-quoted string or does the compiler optimise
> this out so the methods are fundamentally equivalent?In that regards you can get a reasonable look at how perl interprets your string with B::Deparse, partly because the deparse reversal shows it more "natively" perl -MO=Deparse -e' print q[Helloo]' print 'Helloo'; perl -MO=Deparse -e' print qw[Helloo world]' print 'Helloo', 'world'; perl -MO=Deparse -e' print qq[Helloo world]' print 'Helloo world'; perl -MO=Deparse -e' print q[Helloo world $var]' print 'Helloo world $var'; perl -MO=Deparse -e' print qq[Helloo world $var]' print "Helloo world $var"; <-- note double quotes perl -MO=Deparse -e' print qq[Helloo \Qwo)\E]' print 'Helloo wo\\)'; -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
