using grep in perl

[Andrew Gaffney]

Cy Kurtz wrote:

> I'm trying to write a little program to take all of the fun out of the
> daily jumble.
>
> My plan is to get a sequence of letters from the user, move the letters
> around and bounce the resulting sequence of letters off of a spell check
> dictionary until the program generates an English word.
>
> When I call grep from the command line, grep returns what I expect. When
> I call grep from perl, I get:
>
> not enough arguments for grep
>
> or
>
> search pattern not terminated

Code. We need code.

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[Cy Kurtz]

I'm trying to write a little program to take all of the fun out of the
daily jumble.

My plan is to get a sequence of letters from the user, move the letters
around and bounce the resulting sequence of letters off of a spell check
dictionary until the program generates an English word.

When I call grep from the command line, grep returns what I expect. When
I call grep from perl, I get:

not enough arguments for grep

or

search pattern not terminated

Thanks,

Cy Kurtz

[Rob Dixon]

Cy Kurtz wrote:

>
> I'm trying to write a little program to take all of the fun out of the
> daily jumble.
>
> My plan is to get a sequence of letters from the user, move the letters
> around and bounce the resulting sequence of letters off of a spell check
> dictionary until the program generates an English word.
>
> When I call grep from the command line, grep returns what I expect. When
> I call grep from perl, I get:
>
> not enough arguments for grep
>
> or
>
> search pattern not terminated

Perl isn't a scripting language, and the Perl 'grep' function
isn't shelling out to run the grep program.

'grep' takes either an expression or a Perl block as its first
parameter. It returns those elements of the following list for
which the expression/block are 'true'.

We can't tell what's wrong without seeing your daily jumble :)

Rob

[Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan]

On Feb 3, Cy Kurtz said:

>I'm trying to write a little program to take all of the fun out of the
>daily jumble.
>
>My plan is to get a sequence of letters from the user, move the letters
>around and bounce the resulting sequence of letters off of a spell check
>dictionary until the program generates an English word.
>
>When I call grep from the command line, grep returns what I expect. When
>I call grep from perl, I get:

Are you calling grep from Perl, or using Perl's grep() function?

>not enough arguments for grep
>search pattern not terminated

Those sound like Perl error messages. Show us your code, please.

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