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[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Ross Moore <ross at ics.mq.edu.au> (RM) wrote:

>RM>   ... but the construction makes for a very clumsy  Ghostscript pipe .

You will never see it, unless in debugging mode.

>RM> Using instead:
>RM>                  $OutputFilename =~ s/'/'\\''/g;

>RM> also works, producing:

>RM> * Ghostscript pipe: gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite  - 
>RM> sOutputFile='A'\''B.pdf' - -c quit

>RM> which is a bit neater.

>RM> Is there any effective difference between these substitutions ?
>RM> That is, can you think of any situation where one fails
>RM> while the other works ?

They should be the same, as you are outside of quotes, and then "'" is the
same as \'.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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