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Expected output is a bearer token that looks kind of like 49vh29378bhwbejgmhm95.

This worked yesterday, but I guess I touched it wrong and now it gives me "Use of uninitialized value in print at ./rough.pl line 93." Line 93 is the line that has print getToken(); on it. The command between the ticks (``) works in my terminal, and returns the JSON output with a token in it. I can't seem to figure out why I'm getting this error. Am I missing something?

sub getToken            # generates Bearer access token
{
    my $output = `curl -k -s -XPOST (URL) -dgrant_type=password -dclie
+nt_id=(client ID) -dclient_secret=(client secret) -dusername=(usernam
+e) -dpassword=(password)`;    
    $output =~ /"access_token":"(.*)", "ex/g;
    return $1;    
}

print getToken();

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Any help is greatly appreciated!

In reply to why is this an uninitialized value? by jdorwin

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