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I am trying to embed an in-line perl script into a kornshell script. The code below gets a message that says "FILE NAME IS TOO LONG". Is embedding perl like this 'legal', or should I be handling it another way?
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cat /home/spjal/files/bprcf.parms  /home/spjal/files/temp |
   perl ' BEGIN { linectr=0 }
         { linectr++
           if ( linectr == 1 )
             { scheck=$1
               echeck=$2
               fcheck=$3
               lcheck=$4
               if ( fcheck == scheck )
                 { fline=2 }
               else
                 { fline=((fcheck - scheck) + 3) }
               if ( lcheck == echeck )
                 { lline=999999999 }
               else
                 { lline=((lcheck - scheck) + 3) }
             }
           else
           if ( linectr == 2 )
             { print $0
             }
           else
           if ( linectr <= lline && linectr >= fline )
             { print $0
             }
         }
       ' >  /home/spjal/files/bprcf.tmp
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Thanks, Jim

Edit kudra, 2001-09-02 Added code tags

In reply to Perl embedded in Kornshell by JALandry

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