Re: using variable inside system call

Your variable is not interpreted inside single quotes (').
Try this instead:

system ('wrunprb', '"*"', '"*"', '"*"', $node);
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pelagic
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Re: using variable inside system call by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 02, 2004 at 15:34 UTC
The original poster has: `system ('wrunprb "" "" "" $[node]');` [download] Assuming the quotes gets fixed such that `$node` gets interpolated, that causes `wrunprb` to be called with three arguments (assuming `$node` doesn't contain whitespace), of which the first two are ``. That's just an asteriks, nothing else. Your suggestion causes `wrunprb` to be called with three arguments (even if `$node` contains whitespace), of which the first two are `"*"`, that is, including the quotes. Since we do not know what's inside `$node` (it may contain things which are special to the shell), suggesting it to replace it with something that bypasses the shell without pointing out this fact shouldn't be done. It's just not the same, even if it looks the same. Furthermore, even if $node doesn't contain anything that's special to the shell, your solution is still different. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: using variable inside system call by pelagic (Priest) on Apr 02, 2004 at 23:58 UTC
Yeah, got me Abigail! It's of course completely different. pelagic ------------------------------------- I can resist anything but temptation.	[reply]