On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:44:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> !I figured out a portable way to escape double quotes inside double-quoted
> !strings. There's now a perl_oneliner() method which generates a safe
> !one-liner for the current OS. The Unix one works. The VMS and Win32 ones
> !should work...
>
> Umm - \x22 will not work on machines that do not natively use the
> ASCII encoding. As it happens most of the EBCDIC perls could
> probably make use of \x7f in that role.
Look at MM_VMS->perl_oneliner() in the makemaker.org snapshot, let me know
if it'll work. If not, patch. It doesn't use any special ASCII escape
codes just s{"}{""}g;
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