On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:15:00 +0000, RichT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grate that worked, the varible must of have a \r and a \n at the end. > thank you very much... > > how would i find our what escape chars are in a varible? > or is there a way to print out a string with out perl translating the > escape chars? > > Thank you again, Ritchie
I believe Windows use \r\n, while most(?) *nix' use \n. What happened is probably that when your script runs: for my $found ($config->get('interface')->all($interfaceTypes)) $config-get.. just returns the whole line(or the last part of the line) from a file that has windows line-ending(\r\n). Tor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>