"Perl newbie" is way too much when referred to me. I've never even thought to try to understand a single character of a perl program. Now I need to. But, still, I don't want. I live more than well with my knowledge of other languages.
However I'm facing a wonderful Courier ESMTP setup that requires me to use perl in order to write a filter. And I don't want to use perl. So I could use one single perl operator I've found: backticks. What I need is to call an external executable passing a filename as the only argument and then returning its output to the caller of the perl script, e.g: $reply=`myfilter.sh $filename`; print $reply; Is the above code correct for my purpose (assuming $filename is defined)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
