Venkateswarlu Bulusu wrote: > > hi Hello,
> i was trying to do negation (~) on a string and i was getting strange result. ~ is a numerical operator, not a string operator. > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > $a = "venkat"; > $b = ~ $a; > print $a, "\n"; > print $b, "\n"; > > when i run this i am getting blank for $b, and getting > 1;2c on the command prompt. when i changed $a from venkat to abcdef nothing > was there at command prompt. i am pretty new to perl, hope someone helps me > out. thanks. $ perl -e' $a = "venkat"; $b = ~ $a; print unpack( "l", $a ), "\n"; print unpack( "l", $b ), "\n"; ' 1802397046 -1802397047 $ perl -e' $a = "abcdef"; $b = ~ $a; print unpack( "l", $a ), "\n"; print unpack( "l", $b ), "\n"; ' 1684234849 -1684234850 $ perl -e' $a = pack "l", 123456; $b = ~ $a; print unpack( "l", $a ), "\n"; print unpack( "l", $b ), "\n"; ' 123456 -123457 John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
