Printing string in Perl

Question

Is there an easy way, using a subroutine maybe, to print a string in Perl without escaping every special character?

This is what I want to do:

print          


        

Answer 1

The printing is not doing special things to the escapes, double quoted strings are doing it. You may want to try single quoted strings:

print 'this is \n', "\n";

In a single quoted string the only characters that must be escaped are single quotes and a backslash that occurs immediately before the end of the string (i.e. 'foo\\').

It is important to note that interpolation does not work with single quoted strings, so

print 'foo is $foo', "\n";

Will not print the contents of $foo.