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Single and Double Quotes in Perl
You can use double quotes or single quotes around literal strings as follows −
Example
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world\n"; print 'Hello, world\n';
Output
This will produce the following result −
Hello, world Hello, world\n$
There is an important difference between single and double-quotes. Only double quotes interpolate variables and special characters such as newlines \n, whereas a single quote does not interpolate any variable or special character. Check below example where we are using $a as a variable to store a value and later printing that value −
Example
#!/usr/bin/perl $a = 10; print "Value of a = $a\n"; print 'Value of a = $a\n';
Output
This will produce the following result −
Value of a = 10 Value of a = $a\n$
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