Mark VanMiddlesworth wrote:

> this is a script that systematically pings every host on the network,
> and writes the output to the screen. If the -n arg is specified, it
> will also write to a disk. What's wrong with the syntax, especially
> line 12?

Why am I supposed to count to line 12, instead of you marking it?

> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>
> $x = 1;
> $b = 0;
>          for ($x = 1; $x < 256; $x++) {
>                  $a = `ping -q -c 1  192.168.1.$b`;
>                  $b += 1;
>                  print "192.168.1.$b   ";
>                  print $a;
>                  $usage="ping.pl [-n]"
>                  if ($arg = "-n") {$e = 0}   # Line 12

You are asking, in the line above, whether your assignment of "-n" to the scalar $arg 
succeeded.  Answer: true, always.

Joseph


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