speech marks in variable

marauder has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: speech marks in variable by davorg (Chancellor) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
A couple of solutions. The first escapes the quotes with a backslash, the second uses the generalised `qq()` operator. `$command = "rm \"/here/$filename\""'; $command = qq(rm "/here/$filename");` [download] -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply] [d/l]
Re: speech marks in variable by broquaint (Abbot) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:06 UTC
That would be the `quotemeta()` function you'll be wanting `$filename = '/some "really" long file name.txt' $cmd = 'rm '.quotemeta $filename; system($cmd);` [download] I assume you've got a very good reason for not using `unlink()` as it sort's out this sort of thing without a problem. HTH broquaint	[reply] [d/l]
Re: speech marks in variable by Masem (Monsignor) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
Simply escape them with a backslash: `$command = "rm \"/here/$filename\"";` [download] (And as an aside, why don't you want to use unlink? It's going to be a heck of a lot safer than using this type of code.) ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain "I can see my house from here!" It's not what you know, but knowing how to find it if you don't know that's important	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: speech marks in variable by marauder (Novice) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:15 UTC
can't use unlink cos i'm using $command in an ssh session	[reply]
Re: speech marks in variable by japhy (Canon) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
Why don't you want to use `unlink()`? Sigh. I suggest: `$filename =~ s/(\s)/\\$1/g` Update: I solved the wrong problem. _____________________________________________________ Jeff`[japhy]`Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker. `s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: speech marks in variable by hakkr (Chaplain) on Dec 07, 2001 at 20:01 UTC
escape speech marks for perl `$var="\"";` [download] and you can escape spaces for the shell `$filename="a\ long\ filename\ with\ spaces";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]