stuart wrote:
> I need to pass words(names) with apostrophes to SWISH-E such as 
> O'Rourke.

I tried something similar to your

	$input = qq|"O'Rourke"|;

in my cgi script and it worked fine for me. 

Here's something else to try: Escape the apostrophes with backslashes
before sending to SWISH-E, like this:

	$input =~ s/\'/\\\'/g;

In fact, using 

	swish-e -w O\'Rourke

on the command line works fine.

After reading your message, I experimented with

	$input =~ s/(.*)/"$1"/;

which also works. Good luck!

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Gordon K. Lai - Software Engineer
UCSF Library and 
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