Re: System command problem in perl

1) don't use the shell

my @args = ( $^X, qw' -pi -e ',
$perlprogram,
'test.txt'
);
system {$args[0]} @args;
[download]

2) What is your expected output? Where do you want to add # that isn't happening

Comment on Re: System command problem in perl Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: System command problem in perl by tod222 (Pilgrim) on Nov 26, 2010 at 21:07 UTC
system {$args[0]} @args; No, don't use system just to run perl when the task can be simply done in a single Perl script. See jwkrahn's response below.	[reply]