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CPAN::HandleConfig(3perl)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide				 CPAN::HandleConfig(3perl)

NAME
       CPAN::HandleConfig - internal configuration handling for CPAN.pm

   "CLASS->safe_quote ITEM"
       Quotes an item to become safe against spaces in shell interpolation. An item is enclosed in double quotes if:

	 - the item contains spaces in the middle
	 - the item does not start with a quote

       This happens to avoid shell interpolation problems when whitespace is present in directory names.

       This method uses "commands_quote" to determine the correct quote. If "commands_quote" is a space, no quoting will take place.

       if it starts and ends with the same quote character: leave it as it is

       if it contains no whitespace: leave it as it is

       if it contains whitespace, then

       if it contains quotes: better leave it as it is

       else: quote it with the correct quote type for the box we're on

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2014-09-29						 CPAN::HandleConfig(3perl)