SPUG: Does readpipe fail to parse arguments?

[Joe Devlin]

No matter what I have tried, I cannot get readpipe to read an argument.
I did a search on deja.com and found a couple of references to patches 
in the perl.porters-gw forum to 'fix' something like this problem with Perl version 5.00557.
The version running at this site is 5.00503.

Anyone have experience with this problem? Do you recommend the upgrade?

#This works great:
	system "$document_root/cgi-bin/print_state_option.pl",$edit_fields{state};

#This fails to pass the arguments:
	$fields{'print_state_popup'} = 
		readpipe "$document_root/cgi-bin/print_state_option.pl",$fields{state};
	#the code doesn't crash, it just never sees the arguments


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