Re: Re: system & shell metacharacters

[snax]

I'm with you. I'd use something like

open BAR, '|bar.pl' || die qq(Useful msg: $!);
print BAR $xmldata;

and let bar.pl read from STDIN. No shell at all. OP might want a glance at perlipc.

[bunnyman]

open BAR, '|bar.pl' || die qq(Useful msg: $!);

... is wrong, because it is interpreted as:

open BAR, ('|bar.pl' || die qq(Useful msg: $!));

... so remember to use "or die" rather than "|| die".

[snax]

Really? Ya learn something new every day :) I have a great number of scripts to modify, it would seem....

[vek]

Using || die is fine as long as parens are used.

open(FOO, $file) || die "Couldn't open $file - $!\n";

When no parens are present, you should use or die instead.

Personally, I always use parens everywhere so my code is littered with || dies.

-- vek --