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Re: Using System Command in Perl

Shlomi Fish — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:40:30 GMT

... In that case, make sure you use String-ShellQuote: http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-ShellQuote/ Alternatively use open '-|', @list which is only

Re: Using System Command in Perl

vishal thakur — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:04:15 GMT

When executing this command, don't forget to redirect the STDERR to STDIO, else you won't be able to figure out the reason why command has failed, so i will

Re: Using System Command in Perl

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:57 GMT

I TRIED IT THIS WAY.. INCLUDING WITH THE BACK LASHES. But I still get nothing.. And I show nothing ran in task manager.. open my $command, "e:\BMC

Re: Using System Command in Perl

Jeff Soules — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:58:43 GMT

Maybe the backtick operator ` `? (Backtick on my keyboard is the tilde key ~ without shift, but it might be different on your keyboard). ... You'd do my

Re: Using System Command in Perl

Dan Stephenson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:55:57 GMT

... Try opening the the command with a piped file handle, like so... the below example will execute a given command and print the output to the screen (you

Using System Command in Perl

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:35:21 GMT

Hi, I am writing a perl program to call/ execute another windows program Using the system command. I am trying to get/print the results to see if the command

Re: Newbie question

Robert Lee Binkley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:40:02 GMT

Hope this helps Output: Apples count is: 3 Oranges count is: 3 Pears count is: 3 Src: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $count = 0; my

Re: Newbie question

Jeff Soules — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:22:11 GMT

In a Unix environment, the easiest way to sort the file would be to use the sort utility on the file. But you said you're running in Windows. So, since your

Re: Newbie question

merlyn@... — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:03:18 GMT

... Kevin> I have it on order and reading it online now.. I hope by "reading it online" you mean you have a safari.oreilly.com account (or access to it through

Re: Newbie question

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:10:29 GMT

Ok. Im stuck again. I need to sort this input file below before my code.. Cant someone help me with this?? ...

Re: Newbie question

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:59:14 GMT

Thanks. I have it on order and reading it online now.. From: perl-beginner@yahoogroups.com [mailto:perl-beginner@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Soules

Re: Newbie question

Jeff Soules — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:54:15 GMT

... If you're learning from books, I cannot recommend _Learning_Perl_ highly enough. It's got a very intelligent presentation order, tons of useful example

Re: Newbie question

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:50:25 GMT

Thanks. I am reading on hashes now and practicing on how to use them. I have not taken any perl classes.. I just started reading the books. From:

Re: Newbie question

Jeff Soules — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:46:57 GMT

You've had prior experience with other programming languages, right? Using substr() this way is a very C or Java way of doing things. Read up on hashes

Re: Newbie question

Kevin Patterson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:42:41 GMT

I fixed it. #!/usr/bin/perl #use warnings; #use diagnostics; my $count = 0; @client = qw(apples oranges pears kiwi); $Input_File="crapdata1.txt"; open(INP,