Re: [MacPerl] Oneliner problems?

[larryat@cts.com (Larry F. Allen-Tonar)]

Ronald,
>Larry F. Allen-Tonar wrote:
>> In the one-liner dialog window, try typing in:
>>
>>     perl -w -e 'print "It truly works.\\n";'
>> The 'idea' of one-liners is to be able to type in the same obnoxiously-quoted
>> and back-slash-doubled PERL one-line command needed for a UNIX shell
>> and have it executed similarly by MacPerl.
>But in a Unix shell I would have typed:
>
>perl -w -e 'print "It truly works.\n";'
>
>without the extra backslash before the 'n'.  Why do you say that the
>backslashes need to be doubled??  If it's not a bug in MacPerl, it's at
>least rather counter-intuitive.  (The above line doesn't give any output at
>all when run from the OneLiner dialog.)

Without doubling the backslash,
AppleScript silently fails to properly parse the
line, as far as I can tell.

The need to double-up backslashes is obnoxious.

Probably this should be considered a defect.

The problem is in a MacPerl script which is distributed and modifiable
( ...:MacPerl Scripts:One Liner/1 ) ...
anybody who is so inclined might figure out how to properly handle backslashes
so they are correctly presented to AppleScript (within and not within a
single-quoted and/or double-quoted argument).
(Sorry, this is not on my list of things to do.)


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