How To Escape Single and Double Quotes in Perl
erics, February 11th, 2021 ## to add a single backslash in front of whatever char was matched
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my $password = q#abc'A1r%Fgt&jh[-#; $password =~ s/(['])/\\$1/g; print qq#'$password'\n#; 'abc\'A1r%Fgt&jh[-' |
## to double whatever char was matched
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my $password = q#abc'A1r%Fgt&jh[-#; $password =~ s/(['])/$1$1/g; print qq#'$password'\n#; 'abc''A1r%Fgt&jh[-' |
## to convert ‘ to ‘\” for shell execution
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my $password = q#abc'A1r%Fgt&jh[-#; $passwordShell =~ s/(['])/$1\\$1$1/g; print qq#'$password'\n#; 'abc'\''A1r%Fgt&jh[-' |
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