Re: Re: Re: Re: How to make perl accept symbol open/close bracket?

Thanks for your guideline.
Here is the way that I tested. In unix command prompt.


# perl multi.pl a b ccc-ddd_eee\
> fff:ggg.hhh, iii(jjj)lllll
/sbin/sh: Syntax error: `(' is not expected.
#
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How to make perl accept symbol open/close bracket? by cfreak (Chaplain) on Jun 30, 2003 at 17:13 UTC
Your own error message is from your shell `/sbin/sh:` [download] That's the program that produced the error message. Perl never sees the argument. The part before the ":" in your error message is always the calling program. If Perl was having a problem you would see 'perl' or '/usr/bin/perl' or somesuch there. You need this: `#perl multi.pl "a b ccc-ddd_eee\ > fff:ggg.hhh iii(jjj)lllll"` [download] Or `#perl multi.pl a\ b\ ccc-ddd_eee\\\n\ fff:ggg.hhh\ iii\(jjj\)lllll` [download] Note that I escaped the spaces too as I assume you want to pass your program just one argument, while the spaces create multiple arguments. Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Your own error message is from your shell

/sbin/sh:
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#perl multi.pl "a b ccc-ddd_eee\
> fff:ggg.hhh iii(jjj)lllll"
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#perl multi.pl a\ b\ ccc-ddd_eee\\\n\ fff:ggg.hhh\ iii\(jjj\)lllll
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Note that I escaped the spaces too as I assume you want to pass your program just one argument, while the spaces create multiple arguments.