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
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Perl Programmers Reference Guide CPAN::HandleConfig(3)
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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-532 |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.perl.org/.
perl v5.32.0 2020-06-14 CPAN::HandleConfig(3)