How can I quote a long string in Perl?
问题 I usually use simple quotes, but sometime I get very long lines which I can't break and also need to use escape characters, so I get something like this: my $str = "select query_accession,query_tag,hit_accession,hit_tag,significance from summaryTables where query_id = \'$query_id\';" I know there are various other ways for representing strings in Perl. What would you recommend? UPDATE Thank you all guys for the SQL-related suggestions. I learn some valuable stuff, but, my question remains (as