RE: AW: CLOB Problem with DBD::ODBC/DBD::ADO for SQL Server


Martin Evans [mailto:martin.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:

The first issue is the back slashes in the here document.

my $text = <<_EOF;
hello\\\\
_EOF
print length($text), "\n";

prints 8 not 10 because \\ in a here document ends up as \.
So half of
your '\\\\' go straight away to '\\'.

You can use a single-quoted here-doc if you want literal backslashes:

my $text = <<'_EOF';
hello\\\\
_EOF
print length($text), "\n";

prints 10.

A single-quoted here-doc is the only way in Perl to turn off absolutely all
interpolation.

Ronald

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