Re^3: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl

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

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Re^4: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl by hadrons (Novice) on Nov 25, 2021 at 22:22 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^4: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl by Bod (Parson) on Nov 25, 2021 at 22:03 UTC
Well...it worked until it didn't... I think that's what was meant :P	[reply]
Re^5: Using system (); with Strawberry Perl by hippo (Archbishop) on Nov 25, 2021 at 23:26 UTC
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. 🦛	[reply]