DaOW> Also, Sid has now demonstrated to me that I do not
 DaOW> need to break up the input string into smaller
 DaOW> strings.  All I need to do is to test the string
 DaOW> for certain characters; and if it has one or more
 DaOW> of them; to place the entire string in quotes.

FWIW: screw the testing unless you are translating those characters to
something else... just put the string in quotes _unconditionally_ as sid
stated ;)

)\/(ark