Chad Kellerman wrote: > > Hi everyone, Hello,
> I know there must be a easy way to do this but I just can't figure it > out. I issue a command from a remote server and get a variable like so: > > my $out = 14G; # actually it's 14G\n > > I am trying to get just a numeric out oif it: I just want the 14: > I have been tried a lot of things, but I just can't gget the G outta > there. Here is what I have now: > > my $Size = ( split /G/, chomp $out )[0]; > > I am grasping at straws. I tried chop, chomp and the like (substr) but > just can't get it to drop both the new line character and the G. # perl -e' my $out = "14G\n"; print $out; my $Size = $out + 0; print $Size, "\n"; ' 14G 14 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]