I have a subroutine that generates a random/secure password. This password is then sent to a different subroutine that changes the password. I am running into a problem when a password contains a special character that is meaningful to perl. An example is below:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $user="bobjones";
my $password="abc$123a";

test($user,$password);

sub test {
    my $user = shift;
    my $password = shift;

    print "$user - $password\n";
}

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Output when run:
Use of uninitialized value at ./test.pl line 5.
bobjones - abca

Basically, I do not want the $ to be interpreted here, and it would be nice to not have to replace $ with \$.

In reply to How to deal with subroutine parameters that have $, @, or %? by walkingthecow

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