Re: johnb-sender

[rleong1]

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"John B" <home-automation@j...> wrote:
> > argh. it's because i'm trying to run it from a perl script. perl
> > doesn't seem to like passing along those \n to system commands. i
> > have it now calling a batch file which calls xplsend. roundabout
but
> > it works.
>
> You should be able to get it to work directly from within Perl by
using \\n (i.e. double up the backslash).
> Perl should correctly unescape this to \n.
>
> HTH,
>
> John

i tried that but it doesn't work.

if i call it with:
`xplsend ... command=write\\ntext=abc`;
the xplhal log shows
command=writentext=abc

if i send \n instead of \\n, it shows only
command=write