On 7/4/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The second I am sure is the darn () in the file names I am feeding
> into the function. Can someone shed some light :) I need to call the
> first indices of many arrays that get passed into this function, so I
> was thinking $_[0] was what I need. Problem is that the execution
> of vmware-cmd needs the value of $_[0] passed to it inside quotes.
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also, 'vmware-cmd $_[0] stop soft'; is missng the quotes around $_[0].
And while I am thinking about it, Don't use $_[0]. It is good form to
handle assigning arguments to lexical variables early in a subroutine:
sub stop_it {
my ($vm) = @_;
my $state = `/usr/bin/vmware-cmd "$vm" getstate -q`;
.
.
.
}
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