Thank you to everyone who helped out with my questions and directing me to
the proper references. Thanks Matt for the pipe tip too.
brian
>
> 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 use the
backticks.
A similar approach I would suggest is to try a pipe. It's very slick -
it'll scale well if the command were going to return many values.
#Syntax not checked...
open (FILEHANDLE, "ph email = [EMAIL PROTECTED] return name |")
or die "couldn't fork" ;
while (<FILEHANDLE>) {
do commands here;
Matt
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