in reply to using < and > with @argv

Or also, cause this is perl and There Is More Then One Way To Do It(tm) you can backwhack it by prefixing it with a backslash, eg perl myprogram.cgi hello\>world

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Re: Re: using < and > with @argv
by sauoq (Abbot) on Jul 31, 2003 at 06:06 UTC
    Or also, cause this is perl and There Is More Then One Way To Do It(tm)

    Well, there is more than one way to do it, but not because "this is perl." This question really has nothing to do with Perl. It has everything to do with how quoting works in the shell (or "command interpreter" in the case of Windows.)

    -sauoq
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      Of course it isn't perl. But this is Perlmonks, home of the perl. Naturally we embrace it's logo in all aspects of life.
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