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Task/Literals-String/Perl/literals-string.pl

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+'c';                      # character
+'hello';                  # these two strings are the same
+"hello";
+'Hi $name. How are you?'; # result: "Hi $name. How are you?"
+"Hi $name. How are you?"; # result: "Hi Bob. How are you?"
+'\n';                     # 2-character string with a backslash and "n"
+"\n";                     # newline character
+`ls`;                     # runs a command in the shell and returns the output as a string
+q/hello/;                 # same as 'hello', but allows custom delimiters, eg: q(hi) and q!hi!
+qq/hello/;                # same as "hello", but allows custom delimiters, eg: qq{$hi} and qq#hi#
+qw/one two three/;        # same as ('one', 'two', 'three'); constructs a list of the words
+qx/ls/;                   # quoted execution, same as `ls`
+qr/regex/;                # creates a regular expression
+<<END;                    # Here-Document
+Hi, whatever goes here gets put into the string,
+including newlines and $variables,
+until the label we put above
+END
+<<'END';                  # Here-Document like single-quoted
+Same as above, but no interpolation of $variables.
+END