SPUG: SPUG Project Ideas

[Andy Jacobs]

This is one approach, but the changes would involve more than just deciding
what quote character to use - it affects internal quotes as well, which
might not be trivial to change...

 - Andy

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> Why not just check the $OSNAME variable, and use the
> appropriate syntax?  We could have two variables:
> $nix_quote = a single quote, and
> $win_quote = a double quote.
> 
> Then, depending on the value of $OSNAME, use the
> appropriate quote variable to enclose the command.  This
> is similar to what I've done for path separators,
> end-of-line chars, etc.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Graham
> Software Engineer
> 360 Powered Corp.
> www.360.com
> 
> Quoting Andy Jacobs <andyj at microsoft.com>:
> 
> > On Win32 there are problems quoting command-line
> programs.  The shell
> > doesn't recognize single quotes as anything special,
> so it thinks the
> > single
> > quote is just an apostrophe in the first parameter
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