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in reply to Re: Single Quotes - how to avoid any escape processing?
in thread Single Quotes - how to avoid any escape processing?

Corion already commented on the problem you noted, but there's another: your $PathOnly is in double quotes, so the backslashes there are interpreted as escape sequences.

Also, should you ever be in need of a string consisting of a single backslash, you could use "\N{REVERSE SOLIDUS}" (prior to v5.16, you have to use charnames explicitly for this to work). That is complicated, but whoever reads that, will have no doubt that you indeed want a single backslash that is not part of an escape secuence.

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Re^3: Single Quotes - how to avoid any escape processing?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Aug 25, 2019 at 18:54 UTC 
    ... your $PathOnly is in double quotes, so the backslashes there are i
+nterpreted as escape sequences.

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    SteveDC:   Ah, yes! 

    c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $PathOnly = qq{c:\Dir1\Dir2\taint_so};
 print qq{>$PathOnly<};
"
Unrecognized escape \D passed through at -e line 1.
Unrecognized escape \D passed through at -e line 1.
>c:Dir1Dir2     aint_so<

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    Don't know how you missed the warnings. You do have warnings enabled, right? Right?

    Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

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