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Re: qx and $!by davorg (Chancellor) |
| on Oct 18, 2006 at 15:35 UTC ( [id://579112]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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From perldoc perlvar: ...if a system or library call fails, it sets this variable. This means that the value of $! is meaningful only immediately after a failure As there was no failure, the value of $! is meaningless in your example.
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