On Oct 28, Mark Goland said:

>Bumped into another problem. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but
>someone might have encountred this here. It seems that if you give a long
>arg to open on winXP{ extanding MAX_CANNON on command prompt } it will get
>broken into lines. Does anyone know how to fix it ? Here is how to recreat,

I think the problem is that the argument contains certain characters (like
? and &, perhaps) in it.  If you have 'GET', you probably also have
LWP::Simple.

  use LWP::Simple 'get';
  $content = get
    "http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=$Val";;

Or else quote the argument:

  open FH,
    "GET 'http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=$Val' |";

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