> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl J. Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:22 PM
> To: Beginners Perl
> Subject: Pushing and Popping ENV
>
>
> Hi,
> I would like to run a script that would significantly change the
> environment several times. I was wondering if there is a way
> to push and
> pop the environment table in Perl so I could always start
> with the original
> environment table. Any ideas.
You can use local() for this:
print $ENV{PATH}; # prints "original value"
{
local $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin";
system($blah); # picks up changed PATH
} # local var goes out of scope
print $ENV{PATH}; # prints original value again
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