Hello Monks, Recently I have been working on a way to convert RTF to text and have found an appropriate solution. However when I use perl -e to put this snippet of code into a shell script, it throws an error. This script will take its values from the command line of one shell script and pass it into another shell script where this perl code is sitting. Like I said it works fine in a small perl script but I am wondering why this error is happening when i try to use it within a shell script. 
function fConvert {
   perl -e '
   use strict;
   use warnings;
   use RTF::TEXT::Converter;
   my $result;
   my $object = new RTF::TEXT::Converter(output => \$result);

   if (@ARGV) {
      foreach my $filename (@ARGV) {
         $object->parse_stream($filename);
         print $result;
         $result = '';
      }
   }
   '
}

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In reply to Perl and Shell (text conversion) by Bryan882

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