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As anyone familiar with Perl knows, the perl language parser performs backslash substitution in double-quoted strings so character sequences like \n are converted into their "real" printable forms.

But how do you perform the reverse operation, say taking a literal tab and printing "\t"? The Perl Compiler suite, the B modules, handily contains such a function:

use B;

print B::cstring("\tWow it works!\n");

produces, predictably enough:

"\tWow it works!\n"