Re: Perl syntax
Re: Perl syntax
- Subject: Re: Perl syntax
- From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:57:54 +0200
Hi Greg,
the way you send your script, perl doesn't try to execute it, but to
load the script file named "use" instead. The complete error message
should be something along these lines:
Can't open perl script "use": No such file or directory
Either save your perl script to disk and then execute
do shell script "perl pathtomyperlfile"
Or wrap your perl script into a singe line and use to -e switch of
perl to execute a single line of code:
set shellscript to "$i=0; while($i<10) {print \"$i\\n\"; $i++};"
do shell script "perl -e '" & shellscript & "'"
display dialog result
Be careful to add \\ before any single ' you use in the perl script,
as the backslash is needed on the command line you pass to the shell.
In the terminal, after executing perl in a line of its own you can
type in a perl script directly on the terminal. When you then hit
CTRL+D, then the script gets compiled and executed. I haven't managed
to simulate that behaviour with "do shell script" - but then, I
didn't try hard.
HTH,
Helmut
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