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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Command substitution or Common novice bug
Message-ID: <1460@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 09:37:18 GMT
Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Should command substitution work inside double quotes?
It sure doesn't for me:

% perl -e 'print "`date` ", `date`, "\n";'
`date` Tue Mar 27 10:50:02 METDST 1990

Is there any reason for this behaviour? As an seasoned shell programmer
I often make this mistake. This is my most common novice bug (I never seem
to learn...) and I'm sure others who program in shell make the same mistake.

Can't perl change in this respect (please).

BTW, perl -v:
$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.4 90/02/28 18:06:41 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 15

Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the Perl 3.0 distribution kit.

	Jan D.