Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> In that example there are paths in MSYS format (ie unix
> format). However you can replace `pwd` with `pwd -W` and get those in
> w32 format. Then you get the problem I am thinking of. But thinking
> about it again this could perhaps be solved (worked around) by writing
> just a small exe that provides path info in Emacs style and compile
> this in configure.bat? Would that be possible?
>
>>emacs --eval '(do-something-with (pop command-line-args-left))' "$FILENAME"
>>  
>>
> The problem is the strings are inside the eval in my example.

Well, then move them out.  That's the whole point of the above
construct: getting a string _verbatim_ from the environment without
any interpretation of quotes or backslashes or similar.  The above has
not been written as

emacs --eval "(do-something-with \"$FILENAME\")"

for good reason.

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