in reply to Possible bug in Perl?

Is your read_apt command outputs something to stdout ? System returns the exit code of the command, not the stdout of it. Try backticks to get the stdout of the command: 
my $b = `read_apt db2` ;

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Nice photos of naked perl sources here !

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Re^2: Possible bug in Perl?
by monarch (Priest) on Jul 26, 2005 at 13:38 UTC
    jeteve, is that last line written in your post part of the post, cause I went to the link and I couldn't see the relevance to the post..

    I'd have thought that a sig would be best represented in a smaller font, if one considers it absolutely essential to use such things..

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      With CSS, you can make sigs look differently from the rest. For example, my custom CSS holds the code: 
      div.pmsig, div.pmsig td, div.pmsig font {
    color: #988;
    background-color: #F0F0F9;
}

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      which makes the text greyish on greyish (for use on white background)

      Feel free to change the colours. :)

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        Thanks Bart! It's great to have that functionality there.

        Be that as it may, I find sigs as offensive as public smoking, bad breath, and other people's headphones you can hear on public transport. Everyone has a right to do it, but it affects others in different ways, and is entirely unnecessary. If people want to see a life motto, there's always the home page.

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