On Feb 21, Bhanu Prakash said:
>my $myname='hi There';
>system "ls","-la";
>system "echo","$myname";
>qx{awk '{ if ($myname==$1) { do something } else print
>$2,$1 }'};
>
>My script is complaining about uninitialized
>variables..
>I suspect it is talking about $1 and $2s .Can I not
>place them here?
Backslash the $ signs.
qx{ awk '{ if ($myname == \$1) { ... } else print \$2, \$1 }' };
>Can I pass $myname to awk?
Well, you can interpolate $myname in the qx{}, but you might want to quote
it:
qx{ awk '{ if ("$myname" == \$1) { ... } else print \$2, \$1 }' };
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