Re: proper way to assign return value to a variable

Holger,

Thank you very much for your reply.  I really appreciate it.  I see what
your saying about ?.  However, also need the return value so that I can feed
it to another script.

Thanks



2010/12/30 Holger Wahlen <[email protected]>

> * Richard Reina wrote:
> > :0 w # send to test_subject.pl check for order no.
> > * ? /usr/bin/perl -e 'require "/home/richard/.pmdir/test_subject.pl";
> test_subject($ENV{SUBJECT};'
> >
> > This works fine, but what I need is to capture the return value of the
> > script so that I can compare it in a conditional and depending on the
> result
> > use it in another called script.
>
> Actually "?" conditions make it even easier to do what you want, you
> don't need to capture the return value yourself and compare it to 0
> explicitly in later recipes: if you add an action line to your recipe,
> this action will only be executed if the script returns 0, and you can
> add another recipe with an "E" flag to deal with the "else" case.
>
> :0
> * ? your_perl_script
> | pipe_to_execute_if_script_returns_0
>
> :0 E
> | pipe_to_execute_if_script_returns_something_else
>
> /HW
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