When you say "control characters" do you mean octal escaped sequences lilke \003 or do you mean you have a string with an ASCII 003 embedded in it? You should use former not latter.
------Original Message------ From: Florian Weimer To: [email protected] Cc: Tim Landscheidt Cc: [email protected] Sent: Feb 7, 2011 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Passing arrays of strings with backslashes as parameters * Dana Hudes: > Use the quotemeta function in Perl quotemeta gives incorrect results for control characters. -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
