Re: Modification of a read-only value

I doubt that the error points to that line ( but as Aristotle points out I am wrong :-( ) Perl's error messages are on occasion out by a line or two. I highly recommend checking the return value of your opens ie:

open(PIPE, "$CommandToExecute|") or die "Can't get pipe open to $Comma
+ndToExecute: $!\n";
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cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: Modification of a read-only value by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 21, 2004 at 15:43 UTC
Sound advice, but unrelated to the problem. That omission would yield an intermittent `readline() on closed filehandle`, not the error the OP is seeing. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^3: Modification of a read-only value by tachyon (Chancellor) on Aug 21, 2004 at 15:52 UTC
I read your reply below. It is an error I have never encountered myself but it does look like the issue: `for ( qw( This is new to me ) ) { print "$_\n"; open(PIPE, "dir\|") or die $!; while (<PIPE>) { # <--- This is the line that the error points to print $_; } } __DATA__ This Modification of a read-only value attempted at script line 4.` [download] Learn something every day. Thanks! cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]