Using scalar variable in system set of commands

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Just starting to learn perl, (as evident by my code and question, but everyone has to start somewhere).

print "Enter month (Abc) \n";
my $month = <STDIN>;
chomp $month;

system ("mailq \| grep \@ \| \$month \|sort +6 -7");
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When using $month I get no output, however if I use Oct or Nov code works fine. Using perl -c and perlcritic.com there doesn't appear to be any errors, however must be something wrong with the code. Thank you, Darryl

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Re: Using scalar variable in system set of commands by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 01, 2012 at 14:37 UTC
By using the backslash, you prevent $month from being interpolated in the doublequotes. The shell then gets $month and tries to expand it - but there is no shell variable named $month. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^2: Using scalar variable in system set of commands by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 01, 2012 at 14:50 UTC
Indeed. The backslashes before the pipes are also unnecessary. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]