Re: Suggestion for perltrap addition (regarding null characters in strings)

David H . Gutteridge wrote in perl.documentation :
>
> From browsing the archives of this list, it looks like this is the
> place for me to make a suggestion for a documentation addition.
> (Apologies if I'm wrong.)

Additions and patches to the core perl docs should go to the
perl5-porters mailing list.

> I think it might be useful to note somewhere in the perltrap docs
> that while Perl permits null characters to be embedded in strings,
> using such strings in functions which supply arguments to an
> external program (e.g. exec and system) may result in unexpected
> and undesirable results, as the nulls may be interpreted as string
> terminators.

I don't think so : because this is a general trap, not a trap specific
to Perl. You'd have the same problem with another language.