Re: Returning a text string

2001-12-04 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Theophilou) wrote: > Hello: > > I would like to exit a perl program such that upon exiting, it will return a > text string to the calling program. How would I go about doing this? > > exit $SomeTextString; > > doesn't work, since

RE: Returning a text string

2001-12-03 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dean Theophilou wrote: > I'm using Perl to set a password and a coworker of mine is using > VB to call my program. The problem is that the person who will end op > running the VB program does not have access to the directory where > passwords are stored. So, I figured,

RE: Returning a text string

2001-12-03 Thread Dean Theophilou
u Genisar P.S. Is that a REAL state law in Idaho? -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:28 PM To: Dean Theophilou Cc: Perl_beginner (E-mail) Subject: Re: Returning a text string On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dean Theophilou wrote:

Re: Returning a text string

2001-12-03 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dean Theophilou wrote: > I would like to exit a perl program such that upon exiting, it will return a > text string to the calling program. How would I go about doing this? > > exit $SomeTextString; > > doesn't work, since "exit" evaluates the above scalar as an integer

RE: Returning a text string

2001-12-03 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Dean Theophilou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:07 PM > To: Perl_beginner (E-mail) > Subject: Returning a text string > > > Hello: > > I would like to exit a perl program such that upon > exiting, it will return a > text