since my chef wants to use a script i have written on a win2000 machine i have to work a bit on it. there rests this one little problem: how to escape characters like spaces to pass as argument to another script:

i have written a little code to make the problem more obvious:

  • tell.pl 
    use strict;
use warnings;

my $string1 = " koisqd / \ poqsdpo .posd";
my $string2 = " koisqd / \ poqsdpo .posd";
my $string3 = " koisqd / \ poqsdpo .posd";

foreach my $toEscape ($string1, $string2, $string3){
        $toEscape =~ s/(\s|\\|\/)/\\$1/g;
}

system("perl hear.pl $string1 $string2 $string3");

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  • hear.pl 
    use strict;
use warnings;

my $i = 1;
foreach my $arg (@ARGV){
        print "$i\t: $arg\n";
        $i++;
}

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    wich gives me: 
    1       : \
2       : koisqd\
3       : \/\
4       : \
5       : poqsdpo\
6       : .posd
7       : \
8       : koisqd\
9       : \/\
10      : \
11      : poqsdpo\
12      : .posd
13      : \
14      : koisqd\
15      : \/\
16      : \
17      : poqsdpo\
18      : .posd

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    instead of just 3 arguments...

    please help me

    ----
    NaSe
    :x

    • In reply to Escaping characters on win2000's cmd.exe by NaSe77

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