Tom Phoenix wrote:
> On 2/20/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> shredder --force --plugin 'Tickets=arg1,desc;arg2,desc;arg3,desc'
>>
>> I can see that the system call would look like
>> system("shredder","--force","--plugin"
>> for the first section there, however, would the last part be
>> "\'Tickets==arg1,desc;arg2,desc;arg3,desc\'")
>> or would I have to break those down into separate arguments?
>
> Why have you backslashed the single quotes and doubled the equals sign?
>
> But I think your real difficulty is that those single quote marks are
> used in shell programming so that the shell won't interpret
> metacharacters (such as semicolon) in the argument. If I'm right about
> that, they shouldn't be included in the actual parameter string passed
> to shredder (which should, indeed, be a single parameter string).
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --Tom Phoenix
> Stonehenge Perl Training
>
I have no explanation for the backslash. I didn't know if they were needed or
not so I bet on the needed knowing I had a 50/50 shot at getting it right. The
double equal sign is a mistype. I believe you are correct regarding the purpose
of the single quotes.
So what you mean is that the entire call should look like
system("shredder","--force","--plugin" "Tickets=arg1,desc;arg2,desc;arg3,desc")
Mathew
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