Hi,

the following url shows other ways of handling quotes, the web page also
contains faqs for perl.

www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators

thanks
Michael


On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:36:29 -0400, John Korb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thanks Mark!
>
>I particularly like the escaping of the double-quote.  That is a very handy
>technique and one which I wouldn't have thought of.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>John
>
>At 2002-08-28 02:30 PM, Mark wrote:
>>How about:
>>
>>system("/SYS/PUB/DISCFREE E");
>>
>>Or way more verbosely:
>>
>>system("callci 'run discfree.pub.sys;info=\"E\"'");
>>
>>- Mark B.
>>
>>John Korb wrote:
>>
>>>I know very little about Perl, and I'm trying to use Perl to parse the
>>>NAME=VALUE pairs from a POST form and then pass some environment
variables
>>>and the VALUE strings (in a specific order) to an MPE program through the
>>>MPE program's INFO= parameter (not much data).  To do so I need to know
how
>>>to tell Perl to execute the MPE program with an INFO= string specified,
and
>>>I can't seem to find a reference that describes how to run a program from
>>>Perl (but I can find many references on calling Perl from C).  I have the
>>>Perl code for parsing the NAME=VALUE pairs and it works.
>>>
>>>Also, perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way.  If there is an easier
>>>(non-Perl?) way of doing this, please let me know.
>>
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