Re: Quting arguments for perl subprocess

[Stefan Monnier]

> I want to do something like

>             (setq sts (apply 'call-process prog nil (current-buffer)
>             t args))

> where prog="perl.exe" and the list args may contain things like

>     file=some-file-name.txt

> The file name above may contain spaces.  Is there a standard way in Emacs
> to quote the file name for this?  I believe it would look different on
> different OS:es.

What makes you think they need to be quoted?  There is no shell involved.


        Stefan