Re: Never done perl before

2005-02-18 Thread Peter Scott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucio Crusca) writes: >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

Re: Never done perl before

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Lucio Crusca wrote: > 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 pur

Re: Never done perl before

2005-02-18 Thread Ankur Gupta
Lucio Crusca wrote: "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