in reply to Re^2: exit value not passed back
in thread exit value not passed back

That is odd. I used your code as the basis of a test program and got results as expected, after the system() returns, $? = 768, shift it right 8 bits and you get 3 (which is what I had called.pl exit with).

This is on Unix (HP-UX) by the way. Things may vary on other platforms - I think that is what the perldoc extract I quoted before is trying to say. What OS are you using?

s^^unp(;75N=&9I<V@`ack(u,^;s|\(.+\`|"$`$'\"$&\"\)"|ee;/m.+h/&&print$&

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