Re: perl test

On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 03:01:14 -0000 (UTC), Peter Dean wrote:

In comp.lang.misc Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 2:14:33 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:33:39 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>

I figured out my Perl issue. =~ s/([\"])/\$1/g; does the trick.

>
If that Perl code does what I think it does, the following Python
equivalent is simpler:
>
    «str-expr».replace('"', '""')

 
The Perl code above escapes quotes, so adds '\' before any "
 
I know nothing of Python :)
 
I actually ended up with =~ s/([\$"])/\$1/g; in my final code. I needed
to escape both quotes and '$'
 

 
would it hurt to backslash everything nonalphanumeric?
 
perldoc -f quotemeta

My use case was escaping a set of strings for use in a command line.
Something like:

$arguments = '"' . $tempfile . '" "' . $name . '" "' . $something . '"';
$returnvalue = `/usr/bin/php /path/to/program.php $arguments`;

I needed to escape " and $, but anything else and the '\' would remain,
causing the value of the string to be incorrect when used at the target.

There's probably a better way in Perl than what I did, but I don't know
much about Perl. I do understand regex reasonably well, but not Perl as a
language.