On Mar 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>and a scalar like this
>$hostname = qx(/usr/ucb/hostname);
You'll want to chomp() $hostname! Output from the /usr/ucb/hostname
command probably has a newline at the end of it; you'll need to remove it.
>2. I want to be able to build a simple sub like this
> sub getname {
> print $getname{$hostname};
> }
But you called your hash %hosts. Typo?
With those two changes, your code should work fine... but why make a
function? That's what the hash is there for.
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