Comments on: How Do I Get Both The Return Value And Text In Perl? Backticks vs. System() (Perl 5.10) http://beerpla.net/2008/04/29/how-do-i-get-both-the-return-value-and-text-in-perl-backticks-vs-system-perl-510/ where things have nothing to do with beer - tutorials, tips, how-tos, thoughts, hacks, and other techy nonsense Sat, 19 May 2012 21:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Artem Russakovskiihttp://beerpla.net/2008/04/29/how-do-i-get-both-the-return-value-and-text-in-perl-backticks-vs-system-perl-510/#comment-4997 Artem Russakovskii Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:59:19 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/04/29/how-do-i-get-both-the-return-value-and-text-in-perl-backticks-vs-system-perl-510/#comment-4997 nogod, hrm, you're right, I don't know why I thought it was new. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod#New_internal_variables lists it as new and the only difference I can see between that and $? is the "native" part. What's so native about it, I'm not sure. ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE} This variable gives the native status returned by the last pipe close, backtick command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator. See perlrun for details. (Contributed by Gisle Aas.) nogod, hrm, you're right, I don't know why I thought it was new. http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod#New_internal_variables lists it as new and the only difference I can see between that and $? is the "native" part. What's so native about it, I'm not sure.

${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}

This variable gives the native status returned by the last pipe close, backtick command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator. See perlrun for details. (Contributed by Gisle Aas.)

]]> By: nogodhttp://beerpla.net/2008/04/29/how-do-i-get-both-the-return-value-and-text-in-perl-backticks-vs-system-perl-510/#comment-4963 nogod Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:20 +0000 http://beerpla.net/2008/04/29/how-do-i-get-both-the-return-value-and-text-in-perl-backticks-vs-system-perl-510/#comment-4963 thats the wrong variable... the exit statius as returned by system has always been available in $?, just like in the shell. that has always been documented... your variable does something else (and is indeed new). $? The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick ("``") command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator. thats the wrong variable… the exit statius as returned by system has always been available in $?, just like in the shell. that has always been documented… your variable does something else (and is indeed new).

$? The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (""") command, successful call to
wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator.

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