GET is a standard util that comes with perl. Problem with quoting the
arguments is that it brings into play the problem with certain characters
(like? and &, perhaps). The fix from command line is to put it in quotes,
there for I really think the problem is with MAX_CANNON.Any Idea's ??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Goland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: GET
> On Oct 28, Mark Goland said:
>
> >Bumped into another problem. Not sure if this is the right place to ask,
but
> >someone might have encountred this here. It seems that if you give a long
> >arg to open on winXP{ extanding MAX_CANNON on command prompt } it will
get
> >broken into lines. Does anyone know how to fix it ? Here is how to
recreat,
>
> I think the problem is that the argument contains certain characters (like
> ? and &, perhaps) in it. If you have 'GET', you probably also have
> LWP::Simple.
>
> use LWP::Simple 'get';
> $content = get
> "http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=$Val";;
>
> Or else quote the argument:
>
> open FH,
> "GET
'http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=$Val' |";
>
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