Re^6: 'perl -e' and '__DATA_

okay then...

Just again in slow motion...

My script is part of an AppleScript.

The perl script needs:

STDIN or Filenames given on Commandline, read with the magic <>
__DATA__

Why _DATA__? Because I want to feed it some stuff whose content I don't know. DATA is a quite safe way for doing it, because I don't need to worry about any "dangerous" characters in it.

Now I use a variable assignment, but i must make sure that the END marker isn't used in the data I want to store.

So is there a problem?

Yes, but not a big one.

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+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

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Re^7: 'perl -e' and '__DATA__' What's wrong? by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 07, 2007 at 18:27 UTC
STDIN or Filenames given on Commandline, read with the magic <> Nope. All that's on the command line isn't read via `<>`, it is in `@ARGV`. Why _DATA__? Because I want to feed it some stuff whose content I don't know. If you use the __DATA__ token in a perl script, you must know what you put after that beforehand, which is quite the same as with a here-document in a -e script. Well, of course you could append something to a script, and invoke it later, which would be a very odd way to use the __DATA__ token. But you could feed your script something with a command line switch and use e.g. Getopt::Long: `perl -MGetopt::Long -e 'use Frob; GetOptions("foo=s",$foo); frobnicate +($foo,$_) while <>' --foo="Some additional data you might pass also a +s a variable"` [download] --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: 'perl -e' and '__DATA__' What's wrong? by eric256 (Parson) on Dec 07, 2007 at 16:19 UTC
Why not a here doc with a terminator that is 99% sure not to show up in your data? like 123456789_987654321 or something. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]