Unix is supposed to not process any special characters inside single quotes so drop the change commands and use SQUOTE .
-- mats Marco Manyevere skrev:
Im trying to process the contents of a string generated in Universe with an external program by shelling out to the OS as follows: CHANGE '\' TO '\\' IN STR1 CHANGE '"' TO '\"' IN STR1 SH.CMD = 'SH -c echo ':QUOTE(STR1):' | ./myscript' EXECUTE SH.CMD CAPTURING RESULT STR1 can contain any characters so to avoid interpratation by the shell I put the two CHANGE statements but it seems some situations are still not covered, for example when STR1 contains \008, the output is wrong. Does anyone know how I can make this foolproof or an alternate method? I am able to get consistent results by writing STR1 to a temp file then running my script with input and output redirection but I want to cut down on unnecessary disk IO. Another question: While STR1 is guaranteed not to exceed 4k, does anyone know the maximum size of the command I can run in this way? Im on AIX. Marco. __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
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