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' |"; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]