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in thread Using system (); with Strawberry Perl

I'm aware its poor programming, but the results work
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Re^3: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl
by hippo (Archbishop) on Nov 25, 2021 at 19:53 UTC

    Except that they don't - otherwise you wouldn't be here asking for help to fix it. ;-)


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      Well, sort of :-) ... it's an issue of the platform. If I could stick to cygwin it would be fine, but I needed to move the script to a Windows based on. But, I'm not going to deny I'm at a disadvantage defending this coding either.

      Well...it worked until it didn't...
      I *think* that's what was meant :P

        it worked until it didn't

        The same is true for all bad practices which seem viable initially. That's why they are bad practices and not simply compilation errors.


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Re^3: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 26, 2021 at 01:13 UTC

    I admire your honesty. Do you have any interest in writing solid code?