There many reasons to quote. It ensures your parameters pass through to the end
intact rather than are misinterpreted.
Its up to you if you want to bang your head against the wall, whine or get on
with your program.
------Original Message------
From: Tim Landscheidt
To: dbd-pg@perl.org
Sent: Feb 4, 2011 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Passing arrays of strings with backslashes as parameters
dhu...@hudes.org ("Dana Hudes") wrote:
> Use the quotemeta function in Perl
> [...]
Why would I want to do that? IMHO, the whole appeal of the
parameters is that one doesn't have to wonder about quoting
in the first place.
Tim
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
