I have a solution. For those interested, all my attempts to escape special characters were slightly off target. If I ran the script in a DB IDE like SQL Navigator, it worked fine. The only time it failed was in sqlplus. It turns out that when sqlplus is processing multiline info, it treats an empty line sorta like the end of a <<HERE doc.

I've left in all the special character encoding (for sql insertion reasons), but the thing that really fixed my script was: 

   $string =~ s/\n\n/\n'||CHR(10)||'/g;

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and thanks to the guys in the Chatterbox (Intrepid, jdporter, mwah, bart, ambrus) for helping me write the regexp and consider corner cases on this.

#my sig used to say 'I humbly seek wisdom. '. Now it says:
use strict;
use warnings;
I humbly seek wisdom.

In reply to Re: untainting or encoding for shelled sqlplus update by goibhniu
in thread untainting or encoding for shelled sqlplus update by goibhniu

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