question: text substitution using Perl

[Bill Ricker]

On 10/23/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> The difference between single quotes and double quotes is strictly
> whether variable interpolation occurs.

Most importantly but not strictly true. The other difference between '
and " is in escape sequence quoting.  Only \ and ' are quoted by \
inside 's.

Note that q{} and qq{} are aliases for ' ' and " ", and you can use
your choice of bracketing characters.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators

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