CPAN::HandleConfig

CONTENTS

NAME

CPAN::HandleConfig - internal configuration handling for CPAN.pm

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.

© 1993–2020 Larry Wall and others
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 1 or later, or the Artistic License.
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https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.3/CPAN::HandleConfig