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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Steve Nelson whispered secretively:
> Hence why it must be escaped or quoted.  Speaking of which, am I
> correct in remembering that if one quotes with " ", $ ' and \ retain
> their meaning, whereas all characters inside a pair of single quotes
> are assumed to have their literal value?

Yes, except that to be maximally pedantic, inside ' quotes, one
character retains its normal meaning: the single-quote mark. It'd be
kind of hard to get out of otherwise :)

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