Re: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question

2002-12-03 Thread Rob Dixon
How about Net::PH ?? Rob - Original Message - From: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:59 PM Subject: RE: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question > Hi- > > A

Re: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question

2002-12-02 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, Hello, > I'm on a unix system and I want to query a ph nameserver to get some > information. I know that I can have unix do it for me with backticks > > $name = `ph email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] return name`; > > this will return text to $name > >

Re: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question

2002-12-02 Thread Matt Simonsen
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 12:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are backticks bad, and if so what are the alternatives if I need to > return information to a variable? They're not as "cross platform" as using pure Perl, but that's not always possible (or at least easy) so sometimes it's "better" to u

RE: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question

2002-12-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi- A quick look at CPAN didn't reveal any modules that would do your queries (you might try too :) Backtics GOOD. You should be able to run your unix script almost as is in a perl script - looks like the easy way out. Aloha => Beau. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[E