Re: system function not handling string properly

Hi,

what's about simply inserting a

print Dumper($link);
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to show us what you get from the database?

McA

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Re^2: system function not handling string properly by hermes1908 (Novice) on Sep 06, 2013 at 21:19 UTC
The script includes a print statement for this purpose. The print statement prints the contents of $link correctly, but system("echo", $link) only prints w. If you download the sample file I included and put it in the same directory of the script you can see the result yourself.	[reply]
Re^3: system function not handling string properly by McA (Priest) on Sep 06, 2013 at 21:36 UTC
Excuse me, I've overlooked that line. What is your OS? What shows 'which echo' on your system? This code works pretty well on my system: `#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; my $url = '"www.youtube.com/watch?v=mark"'; system('echo', $url); $url = "www.youtube.com/watch?v=mark"; system('echo', $url);` [download] McA	[reply] [d/l]