but Doc just mentioned that unquoted strings usually work
Not exactly what I said there Glenn, but close.
It would appear that SINGLE Unbroken strings for VARS is able to omit the quotes. I don't think that it should, but it does work and has since 3.6x so fixing it might break other stuff or current scripts.
Normal STRINGS still REQUIRE quotes or will potentially abend or at least alter the expected outcome of the script.
@ITDADDY
Yeah, Glenn is really good at code commenting, better than anyone else I've personally worked with before. He also goes out of his way to try to explain the code for those interested.
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