Thank you for the suggestion, and it would be a valid one in a different context. It's my fault for not being more specific about what I want to do.

The situation is:
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There are a set of commands implemented in Perl which make up a command line interface similar to the Bash prompt. Most of these commands display there output to STDOUT. I am attempting to wrap these commands with analogous subroutines in a Perl module, so that instead of printing to STDOUT, I capture a command's output, process it, and return meaningful values. Such a module is more reusable (and I have need of it).

So you see I have to treat this command line interface as a blackbox, though it is possible, I am not 'permitted' to modify the strings that are spewed out when invoking a certain command.

Finally even though I know about using backslashes and literals I don't know how to make use of them in the above code. Any other suggestions.

In reply to Re^2: How do I disable variable expansion of strings? by seank
in thread How do I disable variable expansion of strings? by seank

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