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+> This is due to the current handling of quoting and escaping issues
+> when converting a pagespec to perl code. `safequote` is used to
+> safely quote an input string as a `q{}` quote, and it strips
+> curlies when doing so to avoid one being used to break out of the `q{}`.
+>
+> Alternative ways to handle it would be:
+>
+> * Escape curlies. But then you have to deal with backslashes
+> in the user's input as they could try to defeat your escaping.
+> Gets tricky.
+>
+> * Avoid exposing user input to interpolation as a string. One
+> way that comes to mind is to have a local string lookup hash,
+> and insert each user specified string into it, then use the hash
+> to lookup the specified strings at runtime. [[done]]
+>
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+Thank you! I'll try it. --Ivan Z.