? Used for pattern matching where in it matches exactly one character after the pattern that you have provided.
Similarly * will match zero or more characters. -----Original Message----- From: LKTee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: String File Dear All, I try command below in Unix $ ls -l file? -rw-r-r-- 1 root 125 May 27 11:11 file1 -rwxr-x- 1 root 52125 May 27 19:11 file2 drwxr-xr-x 1 root 442 May 27 20:11 file3 May I know that the purpose of the "?" in the string file? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
