skip at pobox.com writes: > Sorry to ask a Perl question here, but... Does Perl have something like > Python's repr() function? I want to print out a string and have CR print as > \r, LF as \n, etc. I looked in the Perl/Python phrasebook: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PerlPhrasebook > > but saw nothing along those lines. perldoc Data::Dumper (but my Perl is rusty) John