On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:28:42 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 07:11 -0800, Peter Scott wrote: >> my $output = `myperlscript.pl 2>&1`; >> send_email($output) if $output; > > Isn't send_email($output) in this situation still going to happen? I > mean, even of there is not output on "myperlscript.pl 2>&1", $output is > going to be set, meaning the validation (send_email if $output) will be > true. > > Shouldn't this be set to something like: > > send_email($output) if $output ne '';
Ahem. What makes you think that '' would be considered a true value? perldoc perlsyn. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
