And, for completeness: I'd think that it's not *nix that ignores the "", but rather Perl says that the variable that you assign the value to would then be undefined and just refuses to work with it.
- use strict; should give you a warning about that. Best Regards Anders Holm Critical Path Technical Support Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel USA/Canada: 1 800 353 8437 Tel Worldwide: +1 801 736 0806 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://support.cp.net -----Original Message----- From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 June 2002 13:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: passing an empty string to a perl script via command line put your cmd-line arguments within quotes make sure they do not contain quotes themselves Bryan R Harris wrote: > Slightly OT, but does anyone know how to pass an empty string to a script > via the command line? I have a script that is invoked via: > > rename match-str replace-str <list of files> > > .... where the rename script does an s/match-str/replace-str/g on the > filenames (variables evaluated, of course; the script already works). > > Sometimes I'd like to simply delete the match string, but I'm having > trouble passing an empty string as the replace string. Unix seems to just > ignore pairs of single or double quotes. Any suggestions? > > TIA. > > - B > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
