Re: Formatting Long String in Backticks

Your 1st code will execute a single external command, but your 2nd will execute two external commands.

I bet you really want something like this:

my $cmd = qq! testing testing !
        . qq! ... testing testing !;
my $test = qx! $cmd !;
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Re^2: Formatting Long String in Backticks by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2010 at 23:52 UTC
I am trying to avoid to do what you just did. If this can be written elegantly like this. `my $cmd = qq! testing testing ! . qq! ... testing testing !;` [download] then why can't this code be re-written elegantly as well? `my $test = qx! testing testing ! . qx! ... testing !;` [download] There must be a way to write the qx where I do not need to use $cmd anymore.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Formatting Long String in Backticks by rovf (Priest) on Mar 10, 2010 at 08:58 UTC
then why can't this code be re-written elegantly as well? Because the dot (.) is defined as catenating strings. Hence, `qx(a).qx(b)` [download] is valid, but is defined as catenating the result of qx(a) and the result of qx(b), which is of course different from `qx(a b)`. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Formatting Long String in Backticks by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 10, 2010 at 00:11 UTC
Stupid Array Interpolation Trick #158: `>perl -wMstrict -le "my $test = qx{ @{[ qw(echo testing ...)[0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1] ]} }; print qq{'$test'}; " 'testing testing testing ... testing '` [download]	[reply] [d/l]