Re: perl continuation character

Folks,

Thanks a lot to all for your explanations.

Have an excellent weekend.

Raul.


Mirco Wahab ha escrito:
Jürgen Exner wrote:
Sherm Pendley wrote:
"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
What is a "continuation character"?
Some languages see a newline as the end of a statement,

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

He probably means 'bash' or the like,
where 'backslash newline' is the
'continuation' thingy.

Regards

Mirco

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