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Programming Perl, 4th Edition
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Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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readpipe

readpipe scalar EXPR
readpipe LIST # (proposed)

This is the internal function implementing the qx// quote construct (also known as the backticks operator). It is occasionally handy when you need to specify your EXPR in a way that wouldn’t be handy using the quoted form. Be aware that we may change this interface in the future to support a LIST argument to make it more like the exec function, so don’t assume that it will continue to provide scalar context for EXPR. Supply the scalar yourself, or try the LIST form. Who knows, it might work by the time you read this.

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