In a message dated 12/11/2008 6:57:14 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > the question lies in why is the difference seen > between when i use > $cmd_1 = "$prog -o $formatStr $queryStr"; > and > $cmd_2 = "$prog -o \"%xxxx#%yyyy#%zzzzz\" $queryStr"; if $cmd_1 and $cmd_2 are indeed the same (i.e., if you include the code fragment i listed in your code and the script does not die), then any difference in behavior cannot be due to these strings or to substrings of which they are composed. the best thing to do is probably to start looking in some other direction to find the reason for any differences in behavior. hth -- bill
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