Executing an app and returning output in a regex.

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(Ovid) Re: Executing an app and returning output in a regex. by Ovid (Cardinal) on Dec 07, 2000 at 02:05 UTC
Not sure what your difficulty is, but here are some thoughts: Try specifying the absolute path to `sabcmd`: `/usr/bin/sabcmd` or something similar. I assume you realize that `\\$xsl` is escaping the escape and therefore interpolating `$xsl`. Have you tried printing `$boilervalues{'XSLTPath'}`, `$xsl`, and `$xml` to verify that they are getting values? Try print the results of `sabcmd $boilervalues{'XSLTPath'}\\$xsl $xml` to verify that it is returning something. Even if it is fine, it may be a problem with the regex itself failing to match. Have you verified that the target text is really there? Try printing that out, too. Cheers, Ovid Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply]
Re: Executing an app and returning output in a regex. by kilinrax (Deacon) on Dec 07, 2000 at 02:04 UTC
That code should work, if `sabcmd ...` is returning a value. Try testing it by breaking that secion of code into two chunks: my $sabcmd = `sabcmd $boilervalues{'XSLTPath'}\\$xsl $xml`; print "SABCMD: $sabcmd\n"; $_ =~ s/<!--PERLINSERT:transformXML-->/$sabcmd/gi; [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Executing an app and returning output in a regex. by Gibble (Novice) on Dec 07, 2000 at 02:22 UTC
Well that works! Of course I was wondering why I had all the extra output until I noticed the print "SABCMD..." line :) Tx for the help!!! I am still wondering why it didn't work in the regex though?	[reply]
Re: Executing an app and returning output in a regex. by chipmunk (Parson) on Dec 07, 2000 at 02:14 UTC
The structure of your substitution worked fine for me; when I changed sabcmd to echo and set some values for the variables, I got back the results of `echo ...` in $_, as expected. Could you provide some more details about what happens when you run your program?	[reply]
Re: Executing an app and returning output in a regex. by c-era (Curate) on Dec 07, 2000 at 02:06 UTC
That is the correct regex, what do you get if you just run the sabcmd expression?	[reply]


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