in reply to What was the programmer trying to accomplish?

Its assignment of exact string as it is in the single quotes into $isacon variable. Look what is done with the variable then -- I would guess that it will be parameter to system or backquotes to execute that as shell command.

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Re^2: What was the programmer trying to accomplish?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 01, 2010 at 11:20 UTC
    Although I expect that it should be a double quoted string unless eval EXPR is somehow used later. $sids[$index] looks more Perl-ish than bourne-ish.
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