On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 16:05 +0000, MacFH - C E Macfarlane - News wrote: > On 25/10/2020 10:29, Chris Walker wrote: > > I wanted to only download series 18 or later of Mock the Week so > > cobbled > > together this :- > > > > get_iplayer "Mock the Week: Series \b(1[8-9]|2[0-9])\b" > > > > It will run manually but not when run as part of the pvr. > > Substituting > > single quotes for doubles made it work. Any ideas why? > > Because, as with bash, Perl treats the contents of single quotes > literally, while it interprets the contents of double quotes. What > exact misinterpretation of the double quoted example is making it > fail, > I'm not enough of a Perl expert to be certain, but almost certainly > that'll be why.
The main problem was between the keyboard and the chair as usual. I had cut and pasted from the command line and then copied that into my pvr script. That included the get_iplayer string along with the search terms in double quotes. I deleted the get_iplayer instruction and the double quotes, ran the pvr function and the latest episode of Mock the Week downloaded as expected. Thanks for the reply and the private message I had from Paul Lautman who's having problems posting to the list when using the Android GMail client. -- __ __| |_ __ __ .------------------------------------------------. / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:cdw_pcm...@the-walker-household.co.uk | \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |________________________________________________| _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
