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Old 01-05-2004, 03:44 PM
tim.bertalot tim.bertalot is online now
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Can't get single quotes to work properly.

I have some perl script that is designed to store a directories contents in a variable and then use it. The code works fine if run directly from a command prompt (substituting print for the LogMessage function), but when i try to run it through visual build I get no errors and nothing stored in the variable. Note the single quotes tell it to substitute the commands output for the command. And yes i intended my path separators to be "/"

my @history=`cmd.exe /c dir \"B:/3.0_history/server/windows/distro_files\" /ad /od /b`;

foreach $folder(@history)
{
$Builder->LogMessage($folder);
}

Thanks for your help!
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Old 01-06-2004, 10:26 AM
kinook kinook is online now
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I got errors in both cases when using forward slashes with the dir command, but using ActivePerl 5.8.2.808 produced the expected output in both of these cases:

test.pl:
my @history=`cmd.exe /c dir c:\\windows\\*.ini /b`;

foreach $folder(@history)
{
print $folder;
}


test.bld:
<step action='Run Script' type='0'>
<Language>PerlScript</Language>
<Script><![CDATA[my @history=`cmd.exe /c dir c:\\windows\\*.ini /b`;

foreach $folder(@history)
{
$Builder->LogMessage($folder, False);
}
]]></Script>
<indent type='3'>1</indent>
<name>perl test</name>
</step>


output:
control.ini
desktop.ini
msdfmap.ini
ODBCINST.INI
system.ini
vb.ini
vbaddin.ini
win.ini
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