RE: Backticks alternative?

[Tim Johnson]

 
My bad.  I changed it to try to make it sound more descriptive, but didn't test.  
Thanks for pointing it out.

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
        Sent: Tue 7/6/2004 1:00 AM 
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        Subject: Re: Backticks alternative?
        
        

        <snip>

        
        > $exec = "ls -l";
        > $src = syscall($exec);
        >
        > sub syscall{
        >    return `$_[0]`;
        > }
        >
        > should work.
        
        Should it? Did you try it? syscall() is a built-in Perl function, so
        the above does *not* work.