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system LIST on VMS appears to split on all spaces. #13155
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From @nwc10As you might be able to infer from the missing header, I couldn't get system LIST on VMS appears to split on all spaces. Contrast: $ perl -w $ This appears not to be documented as a limitation in pod/perlport.pod Is it a bug which can be fixed, or does it need to be documented as a Nicholas Clark Flags: Site configuration information for perl 5.19.3: Configured by nclark at Mon Jul 29 13:08:35 UTC+5:30 2013. Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 19 subversion 3) configuration: @INC for perl 5.19.3: Environment for perl 5.19.3: |
From @craigberryOn Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Nicholas Clark
There is likely a vim on the system you're using but I don't know how
system doesn't really do arguments -- we fake it by stringing them $ perl -le print@ARGV a b c $ In the second example, Perl has no way of knowing that '@ARGV' is part |
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
From @LeontOn Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been told the windows quoting code is buggy, but I haven't been Leon |
From @nwc10On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:53:59PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
Based on my memories of trying to fake up list-based @ARGV on RISC OS, which 0) There is no perfect solution to serialising the argv passed to "exec"() but given all of the above, I would have expected that list system and list (but yes, changing things now might break more than it fixes) Nicholas Clark |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#119195 (status was 'open')
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