Hi, Monks -

I am trying to assign the return value of a Bash command into a variable. The problem seems to be the handling of the required double quotes inside of the backticked expression: 
sub get_valence
{
    my $lemma = shift @_;

    my $lexical_entry = `egrep -m 1 "^$lemma:" /home/lexicon`;
    
    return $lexical_entry;
}

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This subroutine consistently returns a blank string while the bash command itself has a non-zero length return value when executed from the shell. Could it be the string $lemma does not even get interpolated into the expression?
Can you please let me know how to correctly include the doublequotes inside the backticked expression?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers - Pat

In reply to How to include a doublequoted string into a backticked expression? by pat_mc

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