Re^3: input special characters

[Anonymous Monk]

If you decided to use eval, you should really consider this:

# file eval.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $sep = shift @ARGV;
my $evaled = eval "qq/$sep/";
print "$evaled:\n"

Now the user enters this:

perl eval.pl 'hehe/; print "Hello there!\n"; unlink "./eval.pl"; q/foo
+'

Result:

Useless use of a constant ("hehe") in void context at (eval 1) line 1.
Hello there!
foo:

And the eval.pl file is gone. So, yeah... as I said, eval is usually more trouble than it's worth. Maybe consider module Safe, which provides restricted eval, if you're dealing with users there (users are evil).