Re: Re: Printing values from references

[fuzzyping]

That sounds about right. The only problem is that I can't leave it outside the quotes**, since it's going to be in a system() call for the real script. If anyone can remember how to escape a full reference string like that, I'd be very grateful.

** Of course, I can simply read the value into a scalar variable and put that into the system() call, but it seems so inefficient. :)

-fp

[Fletch]

Perhaps you're thinking of something along the lines of:

system "frobnitz --oik @{[ $something->method ]}"

Of course some would consider that uglier than a temporary. Also remember that system() will take a list just fine (presuming you're not dependent on it being passed to a shell for redirection or what not).

[fuzzyping]

Good call, on both points. That works, but you're right... it's ugly and very unintuitive. I think I'll just use the temp as you've suggested. Thanks!

-fp

[gryphon]

Greetings fuzzyping,

So why not just do the following?

system('cmd_line stuff ' . $part->bodyhandle->path . ' and_stuff');

gryphon
code('Perl') || die;