Dan Muey wrote: > > That won't work if the write decides that "file1" should be a > > variable instead. Just a thought :-/ > > Ok, in the example file1 wasn't a variable but if you dod want to do > \\machine1\share\$file > > copy(qq(\\machine1\share\$file),qq(\\mahine2\share\$file)) or ... > > Would that cover all the bases? > > DMuey
Hi Dan, I think what you would be looking for here is the quotemeta function. AFAIK, qq() only substitutes for the double quotes, but does not escape control characters. Use quotemetas to prepare a literal string for double quotes. I haven't used it much, though, so I don't know whether it will also escape scalar indicators and toast interpolated variables. I think it is best to explicitly escape the path separators if you are going to include variables. Of course, it is questioable whether backslashes are necessary anyway. Unless the string is to be handed direct to the Win/DOS system in a system call, they shouldn't be needed. All Perl file-handling functions properly abstract path separators, so you can use forward slashes for all file-paths and trust the language to interpret the path in the context of the local file system. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
