[Chicago-talk] Bareword found where operator expected

[Richard Reina]

Thank you Andy.  That worked perfectly.  I really appreciate the reply.


---- Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Richard Reina wrote:
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> > system("gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"; sleep 4;'");
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> You have double quotes inside of that string.  You need to do either:
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> system("gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print \"Hello World\n\"; sleep 4;'");
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> or
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> system(q{gnome-terminal -x perl -e 'print "Hello World\n"; sleep 4;'});
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