Hi there,

I am trying to do the following:

$string = system ("ping -a $hostname | cut -c20-30");

This result returns 0 which is suppose to indicate success. But it never proves me wrong it always stays un-changed at 0.

More to the point. I am trying to store the value returned, which would be "is alive" in a string variable. How would I go about it.

I've tried $string = " ";
and then
$string .= $string + system ("ping -a $hostname | cut -c20-30");

I'm lost!

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