Chuck Lee wrote: > So I'm using ` to execute a system command because I want to examine the > output of the command. > > my $var = `c:\windows\blah.exe`; > > If I run the command from the command line I get: > > This ran fine. > > Now if I look at the variable $var I get: > > T h i s r a n f i n e. > > So this is strange. See what happens if I strip out the spaces: > > $var =~s/\s+//; > > or > > $var =~s/ //g; > > And the out is the same. Perl doesn't seem to recognize the spaces. > > Any ideas of what can be going on here?
Not yet, try dumping $var in hex to see what's really there. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
