The diamond operator works fine without escaping your backslashes, but I
recommend putting quotes around your arguments. The following works
just fine for me:
c:\> while.pl "c:\documents and settings\username\desktop\file.txt"
If you want to use the less-than operator (or a pipe), then yo
--- Timothy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The diamond operator works fine without escaping
> your backslashes, but I
> recommend putting quotes around your arguments. The
> following works
> just fine for me:
>
> c:\> while.pl "c:\documents and
> settings\username\desktop\file.txt"
(response below)
>-Original Message-
>From: Hardly Armchair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:19 PM
>To: Timothy Johnson; beginners@perl.org
>Subject: RE: [Win32] Basic I/O Question
>> If you want to use the less-than operator (or a
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