Re^5: Troubleshooting question

I am not sure if there is much difference in having the key word "my" in front of the variable that you have versus not having it

That's not the crucial point.

What's important is that I assign the contents, not the results of the backticks operation to a variable - and by doing that, I can use a different quoting constructor (single quotes).

Could this be a bug?

I don't see a bug; I just see a bug in your understanding of nested quoting constructs (which is not surprising, because three different ones appear: backticks, shell interpolation and shell interpolation in double-quoted strings).

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Re^6: Troubleshooting question by elittle (Initiate) on Mar 23, 2010 at 18:33 UTC
Thanks for clarifying my bug. Like I said I am coming in after someone and trying to clean up their code which had errors to begin with. I have tried it all ways with backticks without and every other permutation there of and when I used your code: my $sed_command = 'sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,3ba' -e 'P;D' /db2/$DB2DBDFT/Messages/temp.txt'; I got this: Scalar found where operator expected at report.pl line 187, near "'sed -e :a -e '$d" (Missing operator before $d?) syntax error at report.pl line 187, near "'sed -e :a -e '$d" Bad name after ba' at report.pl line 187. Any who I got rid of that code plus 3 other lines and I get the same output from the email without any errors. This just illustrates the importance of commenting code because people come behind you and have to deal with your programs after you are long gone. Oops I couldn't my opinions to myself. THANK YOU to all of you that responded. I appreciate your help and explanations.	[reply]

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Re^6: Troubleshooting question
by elittle (Initiate) on Mar 23, 2010 at 18:33 UTC

Thanks for clarifying my bug. Like I said I am coming in after someone and trying to clean up their code which had errors to begin with. I have tried it all ways with backticks without and every other permutation there of and when I used your code: my $sed_command = 'sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,3ba' -e 'P;D' /db2/$DB2DBDFT/Messages/temp.txt'; I got this: Scalar found where operator expected at report.pl line 187, near "'sed -e :a -e '$d" (Missing operator before $d?) syntax error at report.pl line 187, near "'sed -e :a -e '$d" Bad name after ba' at report.pl line 187. Any who I got rid of that code plus 3 other lines and I get the same output from the email without any errors. This just illustrates the importance of commenting code because people come behind you and have to deal with your programs after you are long gone. Oops I couldn't my opinions to myself. THANK YOU to all of you that responded. I appreciate your help and explanations.

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