Re: perl continuation character

Sherm Pendley wrote:
"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

ranrodrig wrote:
Folks, can you tell me if there is a continuation character in
Perl?,

What is a "continuation character"?

Some languages see a newline as the end of a statement, so when you're
writing in one of those you need to escape the newline, usually with a
backslash, for multi-line statements. The escape character for those
languages is called the "continuation character" because it indicates
that the statement will continue onto the next line.

You mean like for the 6502 assembler for example? I thought fixed format
languages were a relict from the past...

jue


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