Re: [MacPerl] Environment variables

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.30 98.01.30, Shyam Hegde wrote:
>1. When envoking a MacPerl program from an AppleScript using the Do Script
>function, which MacPerl variable can be used to access the parameters
>passed to the script from the env property?  Is it $ENV or @ARGV??


tell application "MacPerl"
    Do Script "
foreach (keys %ENV) {
  $x .= sprintf(\"%s => %s\\n\", $_, $ENV{$_});
}
MacPerl::Reply($x);
" environment "a=b"
end tell

Hm.  This prints "a => b=".  AND, I cannot figure out how to send more than
one environment variable pair.

>2. To pass variables back to AppleScript, do you use the 'return' statement
>from within MacPerl??

See above.

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