On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0700, Anthony Baratta wrote:
> At 12:36 PM 9/27/2004, Bill Moseley wrote:
> >Following our discussions last week... can I get a few Windows users
> >to help test something?
> 
> I had to make one tweak to get it to work:
> 
> my @command = ( 'perl', 'my test.pl', 'first arg1', '"second arg2"' );
> 
> I had to drop the "my " in front of test.pl. ActiveState Perl didn't like 
> it.

Oh, but that was part of the test.  How does active state not like it?
Does it work if you use double quotes?

   my @command = ( 'perl', '"my test.pl"', 'first arg1', '"second arg2"' );

You did name the test program "my test.pl", right?

Thanks,



-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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