I'm running on unix (5.6) and that is a cutnpaste of my working script.
'course it wrapped along the way ... what system are you useing? Did you
'unwrap' the array assignment line? What failure did you get?
I didn't ask the question, the spaces should be okay, but it also works
w/o them:
my @CmdList = ('/tmp/hello.pl', '-p', '"this is my parm"', '-m', '"this is
my message"', '-o', '"this is my option"', "data1 data2 data3 data4
data5");
That's one line. I didn't ask the original question and I, er, lost, the
original post and user email.
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> This works:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> my @CmdList = ('/tmp/hello.pl', ' -p ', '"this is my parm"', ' -m ',
> '"this is my message"', ' -o ', '"this is my option"', " data1 data2
data3
> data4 data5");
> print "cmd: ", @CmdList, "\n";
> exec "@CmdList";
I would be surprised if this works. I certainly fails on my system.
Splitting things up is the right way to go but the first argument you
are passing to the hello.pl program is " -p ". This starts with a space
rather than a dash so it will not to seen as an option.
If you want it to print pretty, try using:
print "cmd: ", (join " ", @CmdList), "\n";
You also need to split up the arguments so there are five rather
than one with imbedded spaces.
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