David H . Gutteridge wrote in perl.documentation : > > From browsing the archives of this list, it looks like this is the > place for me to make a suggestion for a documentation addition. > (Apologies if I'm wrong.)
Additions and patches to the core perl docs should go to the perl5-porters mailing list. > I think it might be useful to note somewhere in the perltrap docs > that while Perl permits null characters to be embedded in strings, > using such strings in functions which supply arguments to an > external program (e.g. exec and system) may result in unexpected > and undesirable results, as the nulls may be interpreted as string > terminators. I don't think so : because this is a general trap, not a trap specific to Perl. You'd have the same problem with another language.
