Hi all, have a question that I hope is easy to answer.

I have multi-threaded server application that needs to set an environment variable, and then execute a command, but not set it for the rest of the threads. Here is an example that shows something similar to what I am doing, 

use strict;
use warnings;

if($^O =~ /mswin32/i){
    system("set test=hello && echo %test%");
}else{
    system("test=hello; export test; echo \$test");
}

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The unix portion of the code works flawlessly, the windows portion however just outputs '%test%'. I have tried using ';' and '&' in addition to the '&&' all with no success. is there a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Thanks.

In reply to Set environment variable for one time system command windows by rmahin

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