On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:20 PM dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote: > forget it -- finally found it on the net -- print "\a"; > I'm so old it's easier for me to remember Bell is 007 everywhere than that it's \a in Perl my favorite language, that's just another special case (Same comment about only works in "" or qq() but not in 'single quoted strings' applies) :-D