From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T07:22:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Problem

On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Rob Biedenharn wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:
>> On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Ari Brown wrote:
>> I suspect it's to allow us to print strings verbatim.
>>
>>> Whats the difference between single and double quoted strings?
>>
>> I believe single-quoted strings have only one special character --  
>> the single quote.
>>
>> Regards, Morton
>
> And the backslash is a bit special:
>
> 'n' => "n"
> '\'' => "'"
> '\\' => "\\"
> '\n' => "\\n"   # because the \ is only special for \ and '

You're right, I should have said there are two special characters --  
single quote and backslash.

Regards, Morton