SPUG: Getting around dollar signs being removed (fwd)

[David Dyck]

It appears that the variable $row[8]
is stuffed into a variable that is
passed as a quoted string $action to
system.

> { system "curl -s -o $data -d \"$action\" $mailto" }

Although it wasn't stated which OS was being used
I think that the shell is interpreting the "$"

 change this to something like
 { system "curl -s -o '$data' -d '$action' '$mailto' " }
 or probably better yet:
 { system qw(curl -s -o), $data, qw(-d), $action, $mailto }

And of course the the return code from
system should be check checked.

  perldoc -f system


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