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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS Perl Questions
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.012758.22993@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 Mar 91 01:27:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1991Mar3.030351.24749@tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Mar3.030351.24749@tc.fluke.COM> by dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck):
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| In article <1991Mar1.041441.4810@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
| >@REM=("
| >@perl 0%.bat ...
| >@end=")
| 
| I have found that sometimes using 'exit' instead of 'end' works.
| also add "if 0;" to end of '@end' line.
+---------------

This requires MS-DOS 3.3; I don't know if @ still works in 4.x or not, but I
suspect it does.  (The usual use is to have "@echo off" as the first line of a
.BAT file, so the file doesn't advertize itself to the screen.)

The "if 0;" is unnecessary.  All Perl sees is an assignment of a single-
element list to an array (`@REM=("string");').

BTW, the "0%" should be "%0".

++Brandon
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