Thanks for the reply guys... haven't got code examples to hand I'm afraid. Something I was trying to get sorted in work today and finished for the weekend.

Basically a hierarchy of macros:
1) run a command on a remote machine & validate output etc.
2) Under the covers this calls another macro that rsh's and calls a small little standalone perl program to do what we want on the remote machine.
3) This standalone perl program then adds a string to a file.

So at each level a set of double quotes in essence is removed... so I suspect I need to pad out with "extras" to allow for the hierarchy?

By the time we get to the standalone perl program its essentially getting a

print This is the test string

rather than

print "This is the test string"

In reply to Re^2: Double double quoting - nested macro calls by kenm
in thread Double double quoting - nested macro calls by kenm

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