Re: BUG REPORT: Website META Language 2.0.1 (23-May-2000)

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Albert REINER wrote:

> PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
> Consider the following minimal input file:
> 
> > <:
> > 
> > system "ls -alF $SCRIPT_SRC_PATH";
> > 
> > print "\$SCRIPT_SRC_DIR = $ENV{'SCRIPT_SRC_DIR'}\n";
> > print "\$SCRIPT_SRC_PATH = $SCRIPT_SRC_PATH\n";
> > 
> > :>
> 
> For some reason, on my system this will give me the directory listing,
> but the two explicit print statements will yield:
> 
> > $SCRIPT_SRC_DIR =
> > $SCRIPT_SRC_PATH =
> 
> , i.e. I don't seem to be able to access the variables even though
> they are obviously used in the system call. This is true not only with
> wml but also by using eperl alone, so the problem is obviously in pass
> 3.

Very strange, i got same result with
  <:
    system "ls -alF $LS_LISTS_CURRENT_DIR_BY_DEFAULT";
    print "\$SCRIPT_SRC_PATH = $LS_LISTS_CURRENT_DIR_BY_DEFAULT\n";
  :>

;-))

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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