Hi,

I am facing a weired problem with using backtick (` `) opertor in Perl.

I am running a java api in shell using perl backtick operator. In my
command i have two options (title and description) whose text have
spaces and newline character. So when run the command with
single/double quotes to give whole text in option i get the No class
defined error.

But when i don't use quotes to club this text then i get API error
(Invalid options ). As API thinks anything after one word as options.

When i run on my shell(ksh) command prompt, it runs fines no error do
it job.
Even in perl without quotes (used for this 2 options) in bactick it
works fine. But i need these 2 options for my porgram,

My perl version is 5.6.0 and aix version 5.1. But i checked on other
Perl and AIX versions and same problem
I have checked all the env variables and they are set fine.

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$ENV{CLASSPATH}='/usr/work/ticket/JTicketClient.jar:.';
my $cmd = 'java JTicket.JTicketClient -i TICKET -n process_name -j p'
# for this no error

my $cmd = "java JTicket.JTicketClient -i TICKET -n process_name -j p
-t 'This is title' -d 'This is description' " # for this i am getting
error
$ticket_dir = '/usr/work/ticket'
chdir $ticket_dir;
my $result = `$cmd`;
die "Error Invalid return from Java API - $?:" . Dumper($result) if
( $? != 0);
print "$result\n";
chomp($result);
unless ($result) {
warn "Invalid return from Java API : $result";
return $result;
}

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I have tried to use pipe even Safe pipes but no luck.
Can somebody help me.

Also i written this small code to check this is becuase of quotes
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Data:umper;
$test = "'Perl is language'";
$res=`echo $test`;
print Dumper(\$res);

on running i am getting extra two new lines

$ perl test.pl


$VAR1 = \'

ram is name
';
~
+++

Tried to used escape sequence but problem presists.

Thanks,
Sanjay