Arthur S. Alexion on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:24:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question


On Friday 20 September 2002 03:49 pm, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:16:31AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > (I may be using the wrong terms here, but) It was in screen output
> > section which was meant to provide the person running the script
> > with some explanation about what was about to happen, etc.  When
> > the author wanted to put stuff therein in quotes, he used two "back
> > accents" ( ` ) as leading quotes and two single quotes ( ' ) as
> > closing quotes, presumably because a real double quote ( " ) would
> > have been misinterpreted by the script.
>
> So will backticks (accents, whatever) if the block of text is
> within double-quotes already. He's just getting lucky because
> there's nothing between the two backticks, but that's spawning a
> shell (with no arguments, that immediately dies) every time.

I guess I solved that problem without even recognizing it as such.  I 
replaced the "backticks" with a pair of single quotes since I suspected 
them orignally of being the offending characters.
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