enclosing variable in quotes

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
>If I'm wanting to pass my variable with double quotes included, why does
>processing not like this?

As a general rule, any variable that may result from user input
should NEVER be enclosed in double quotes as the variable may
contain malicious code (e.g. "; rm -rf $HOME;").

Bill
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