in reply to Perl and your environment
There are a couple problems with what you have.
- I'm pretty sure you mean to be using a concatentation operator, which in Perl is .. The & you are using is a bitwise AND operator.
- Using `` causes variable interpolation, so your script is trying to interpolate a variable called $USER. Using the {} has no bearing on variable interpolation the way you are using it. You have to escape the $ with a \
- The return value you will get from the `` will have a newline attached to it. You'll need to chomp that.
After all that you should come with something like this:
chomp($user = `echo \$USER`); $TESTVAL = "~" . $user . "/foo";
Of course, the methods the other monks posted are probably a better idea than this. I'm trying to show you how to properly use the operators you chose.
Hope that helps.
Amel - f.k.a. - kel
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Re: Re: Perl and your environment
by P0w3rK!d (Pilgrim) on Jul 24, 2001 at 22:26 UTC |
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