CPAN::HandleConfig(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation          CPAN::HandleConfig(3)



       "CLASS->safe_quote ITEM"

       Quotes an item to become safe against spaces in shell interpolation. An item is enclosed
       in double quotes if:

         - the item contains spaces in the middle
         - the item does not start with a quote

       This happens to avoid shell interpolation problems when whitespace is present in directory
       names.

       This method uses "commands_quote" to determine the correct quote. If "commands_quote" is a
       space, no quoting will take place.

       if it starts and ends with the same quote character: leave it as it is

       if it contains no whitespace: leave it as it is

       if it contains whitespace, then

       if it contains quotes: better leave it as it is

       else: quote it with the correct quote type for the box we're on

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.8.8                                 2008-08-03                      CPAN::HandleConfig(3)