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Re^2: accessing an environment variable dynamicallyby JennieInMI (Acolyte) |
on Jan 01, 2013 at 20:58 UTC ( [id://1011183]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Thanks for the welcome. It's pretty much just what I asked in my initial post. I need to compare two folders and find out if the content is identical. I've got a BC3 script that does that. Supposedly, it sets the %errorLevel% environment variable when it's done executing and I should be able to capture that and use that value to inform my Perl script of the success or failure of that comparison, but I'm not having a lot of sucess. Thus the questions I listed. If this doesn't work I can parse the report generated by my BC3 script, but this SEEMED the easier option. Also, the current manual audit process specifies a BC3 comparison so I'd like to honor that. If I need to do it differently though, I think that'd be fine as long as it is accurate. Also, I think learning how to do this correctly will be really valuable in the long run. Scripts generally tend to do a lot of interacting with the environment they run on so becoming adept at accessing and utilizing those values seems like a smart plan. Thanks so much for being so willing to jump in and help another coder. Jennie
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