Re: Trouble getting the file contents from return values

It seems your sub returns the contents of two scalar variables, $out1 and $out2, which you set to be equal to two strings which look like file names. Look at the output of print:

    my $out1 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig1.txt";
    my $out2 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig2.txt";
    print "out1=$out1\n"
    print "out2=$out2\n"
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Update: it is also generally a good idea to check the success of system calls.

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Re^2: Trouble getting the file contents from return values by lomSpace (Scribe) on Jun 12, 2009 at 13:47 UTC
Hello Toolic! My system call works. My issue is getting the contents of the file for inserting into my db table field. Currently, all I am inserting is the file name.	[reply]