On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 04:33:41PM -0500, Bob H wrote:
> I can actually do that.  : )
> 
> What I need to do is take the contents of the $file variable expand it
> and then run some system() commands using it. The print only shows to
> console. Can I do anything with that?

What do you mean, "expand it"? Backticks interpolate, so this might be
something like what you mean:

my $file = 'thefile';
my $result = `cat $file`;
print $result;

HTH,
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Michael
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