I'm not convinced that you are correct:  perl -e '$foo="tada;";print "$foo\n"'

Your answer has nothing to do with the | (pipe) causing the error. Whether there is a table to describe or not, does not take away the fact that you can have as many semi-colons inside quotes as you like, Perl will not mind.

[EDIT]
Boy, there I was trying to make things clearer, and I muddy them, sorry.

suekawar, maybe your problem stems from a lack of documentation. I found nowhere on PerlMonks or Perldoc.com that explains how qx works in any simple terms. 

perl -e '
> $foo = qx[ echo "Me Graq!" ];
> print "$foo";
> '
Me Graq!

[download]
Try reading http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators.

VSarkiss, I was trying to put across that for someone confused between system, qq and qx your answer might not be so clear.

<a href="http://www.graq.co.uk">Graq</a>

In reply to Re: Re: PIPE problem by graq
in thread PIPE problem by suekawar

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