I'm working on a perl interface to a sort of database-query program with a command-line interface, and I'm almost at my wits end trying to quote special characters in order to escape them from perl-shell-whatever. An ordinary shell script to do a query might look like this... 
eval `script_to_setup_environment`
Report -raw -view fileView -where " \
   fileView.Attr1 in ('eggs') and \
   fileView.Attr2 in ('yes') and \
   fileView.Attr3 in ('blue') \
   " |
...with the pipe going to something else. Now I'm trying to place this script in a "here-document", and having a terrible time with all the double-quotes, single-quotes, newlines, and parentheses, especially since I have to be able to change the values in the single quotes inside the parentheses. Any ideas out there? I'm wearing out my backslash key to no avail. I'd love to do it all inside the perl script if it's possible. Thanks!

In reply to Save Me from quoting hell? by Jason0x21

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