Re: sending multiple variables to external PERL script for results

In article <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOECFINAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>, dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave Vanauken) wrote: > normally this would easily be solved passing the command as > $command="myscript.pl $name $phone $ccnum"; > $results=passthru($command); > and parsing out the argv's in the perl script > > however, this breaks if $name happens to have a space in it (or other > restricted > or special characters like ' \ ; and so forth) Check out <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php> and <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellcmd.php> -- CC