Re^2: quoting for system() and friends

Forgot to check the requirements? quotemeta is useless here.

$ perl -e '$qs=quotemeta("|"); system( qq{echo "$qs"} );'
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Re^3: quoting for system() and friends by snoopy (Curate) on Mar 06, 2007 at 11:41 UTC
If you're constructing SQL statements, you avoid putting quotation marks around a string that allready been formatted with DBI's quote method. This is analogous as to how shell arguments constructed using the quotemeta function should be treated, ie: `$ perl -e '$qs=quotemeta("\|"); system( qq{echo $qs} );'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: quoting for system() and friends by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 06, 2007 at 16:39 UTC
Ah! Quoted strings were stuck in my mind, probably because we were just talking about them and that's how it's done in Perl. `perl -e '$qs=quotemeta("\|"); eval( qq{print "$qs"} );'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]