On Apr 12, drieux said:
>On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 09:09 , bob ackerman wrote:
>[..]
>>> $tmp = system $selection;
>>>
>>
>> try:
>> $tmp = `$selection`;
>>
>> to get back results that command sends to stdout.
>>
>>> return $tmp;
>
>what is the 'special variable' that would get set th
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 09:09 , bob ackerman wrote:
[..]
>> $tmp = system $selection;
>>
>
> try:
> $tmp = `$selection`;
>
> to get back results that command sends to stdout.
>
>> return $tmp;
what is the 'special variable' that would get set that
would return the exit code of runn
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Timothy A. DeWees wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convert a shell script to perl because I need to do
> some
> binary math, and I want to add more flexibility in general.I'm a bit
> new
> to perl, but here is my question (don't laugh).
>
> I
On Apr 12, Timothy A. DeWees said:
>I am trying to execute an external process (in this case dialog). Dialog
>displays a menu to the user and will output there selection via stdout or
>stderr. I want to take what the system call to dialog will pass to stdout
>or stderr and assign it to a string
Hello,
I am trying to convert a shell script to perl because I need to do some
binary math, and I want to add more flexibility in general.I'm a bit new
to perl, but here is my question (don't laugh).
I am trying to execute an external process (in this case dialog). Dialog
displays a men
