RE: safe shell strings

[Damian Harty]

> Is there any generic function that takes a string such as a filename, and 
> turns it
> into something that can be quoted in a single command line string for the 
> shell
> that system() is going to use? I can't find one, but it took me a long time 
> to find
> strtrim() so there might be one out there. If you know there isn't one, please
> let me know so I can stop looking.

I have a feeling "strcat" is your friend. It stands for "concatenate strings". 
And no, I have no idea exactly *how* it stands for that...

> strcat("A","B","C")
ans = ABC

Damian
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