First off, I really like Ask's response, that was the sort of thing I
needed: food for thought.
And Curtis, I knew I had seen that chart somewhere but this late in the
afternoon I must be tired. I do want those interpolated, so tomorrow I'll
play around with it and see what I can come up with. An array, you say? I'm
not yet used to the way these variables act like infinitely-expandable
containers: I keep thinking I'm going to break something if I just dump a
load of output into a variable. I'll grow out of it, I hope.
This is my first serious Perl program, and even just starting out I can tell
I'll be writing far fewer ksh scripts from now on. Good job, Larry &
friends.
-=GLA=-
--- "Gary L. Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have written this:
>
> system qw( /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piomisc_ext mkpq_remote_ext -q $qname
> -h $newhost.$domain.ko.com -r jfsrvrsap -t bsd -d $qname
> "Jetforms NT Server TEMPORARY" );
>
> Nevermind what I am doing (adding a remote print queue), I am mainly
> interested in using the qw() properly. It splits on whitespace, so I
> figure that this will do exactly what I want, but I am not sure if it will
> split on the whitespace inside the double-quotes. Will double-quotes
> suffice to keep that string intact?
>
> I could just type out a big list using "," to separate, but where's the
fun
> in that?
Sorry, no white space allowed. Further, using the 'qw()' construct does
*not* allow for
interpolation. Unless you want a literal '$qname' in their, you'll need an
array.
>From "Quote and Quote-Like Operators" (perldoc perlop):
Customary Generic Meaning Interpolates
'' q{} Literal no
"" qq{} Literal yes
`` qx{} Command yes (unless '' is
delimiter)
--> qw{} Word list no
// m{} Pattern match yes (unless '' is
delimiter)
qr{} Pattern yes (unless '' is
delimiter)
s{}{} Substitution yes (unless '' is
delimiter)
tr{}{} Transliteration no (but see below)
Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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