Suggestion for perltrap addition (regarding null characters in strings) by David H . Gutteridge- April 4, 2006 Hi all,From browsing the archives of this list, it looks like this is theplace for me to make a suggestion for a documentation addition.(Apologies if I&39;m wrong.)I think it might be useful to note somewhere in the perltrap docsthat while Perl permits null characters to be embedded in strings,using such strings in functions which supply arguments to anexternal program (e.g. exec and system) may result in unexpectedand undesirable results, as the nulls may be interpreted as...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.documentation/2006/04/msg822.html |