Re: System() function in 5.8

2003-01-30 Thread John W. Krahn
Ravinder Chauhan wrote: > > After installing Perl 5.8 my @files = system("dir bex*.* /od /b") function > has started behaving strange. Under 5.6 this function used to return the > list of files for matching files, however now in place of file list it is > returning a number "65280". I would apprec

System() function in 5.8

2003-01-30 Thread Ravinder Chauhan
After installing Perl 5.8 my @files = system("dir bex*.* /od /b") function has started behaving strange. Under 5.6 this function used to return the list of files for matching files, however now in place of file list it is returning a number "65280". I would appreciate if someone could help me in th