On Mar 21, Trice Dennis D said: >I'm trying to create a hash of the /etc/group file. I need the key to be >the group name and just the members of the group to be the key value.
You can use Perl's getgrent() function. setgrent(); while ( my ($name, $members) = (getgrent)[0,3] ) { $group{$name} = $members; } endgrent(); -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]