Re: talking to Perl for a text-cleanup.

How do you normally pass it? julien Beauviala wrote:

On (15/04/03 09:35), John Nichel wrote:

Enclose your command in backticks to call that actual line $formated_text = `perl -MText::Autoformat -e'autoformat{right=>63, all=>1}'`;

Yes, but how do I pass '$argument' to this command, so as to use $formated_text into the field where it is supposed to be once $argument is processed. $argument in that case being an email length block of text. j.