Re: Passing arrays of strings with backslashes as parameters

"Dana Hudes" <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:53:22 +0000

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When you say "control characters" do you mean octal escaped sequences lilke \003 or do you mean you have a string with an ASCII 003 embedded in it? You should use former not latter. 

------Original Message------
From: Florian Weimer
To: [email protected]
Cc: Tim Landscheidt
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Feb 7, 2011 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: Passing arrays of strings with backslashes as parameters

* Dana Hudes:

> Use the quotemeta function in Perl 

quotemeta gives incorrect results for control characters.

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