[Memphis.pm] quotes in program arguments

[Steve Lane]

Hal Phillips wrote:
> Thanks, but the problem is that I can't modify the incoming message before I
> see it.

i don't understand why you can't just put single quotes around
the argument, but anyway... you're S-O-L then.  again, it's
the shell, not perl, that's the cause of your problem.

-- Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lane [mailto:sml at zfx.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: memphis-pm-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [Memphis.pm] quotes in program arguments
> 
> Hal Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Hey, does anyone know how to tell perl to interpret quotes in a program
> > argument as just part of a string?  More precicely, I need something that
> > basically will take the equivalant of echo's $* as a command argument.
> >
> > What I neet to do is have a perl program that I can to this with:
> > >program.pl -o [2002-11-12 09:00:00]: subject=SOMETEXT,
> > message={SEVERITY="ERROR", ACTION="None", MOREKEYS="MOREVALUES", ETC="ETC
> > ETC ETC"}
> [snip]
> > > program.pl -o Sam"I"am
> > SamIam
> >
> > what I need is Sam"I"am to actually make it through uninterpreted.
> 
> this has nothing to do with Perl; it's a shell question.
> your shell acts on the double-quotes before they ever reach
> perl.  the same would happen if you had any of [*?'><&] (etc)
> in your argument.
> 
> just single-quote your argument:
> 
> $ echo Sam"I"am
> SamIam
> $ echo 'Sam"I"am'
> Sam"I"am
> 
> if your argument has single-quotes, you'll have to escape them,
> in your preferred way of shell-single-quote-escaping, such as:
> 
> $ echo 'Sam"I"a'"'"'m'
> Sam"I"a'm
> 
> --
> Steve Lane <sml at zfx.com>
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