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[Richard Cohen]

On 20/04/05, Steve Nelson <sanelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/05, Richard Cohen <vmlinuz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > That's exactly the sort of thing I can never remember and never really
> > be bothered to remember, since 10 seconds testing will answer the
> > question :-)
> 
> Point well made.  I'll shut up now ;-)

You know I didn't mean that :-)

All I meant was that as long as I know that one of them behaves one
way and one the other, I prefer to get the answer by trial and error
when I need it rather than remember.  So I posted a trial and error
session...

> S.

Cheers
Richard
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