On Thu, October 18, 2007 11:20 am, Matthew Whipple wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, October 18, 2007 9:39 am, Matthew Whipple wrote: >> >>> Paul wrote: >>> >>>> I am assigned the output of a function to a variable. >>>> >>>> my$variable = (function); >>>> print "$variable\n"; >>>> >>>> The output is: >>>> text >>>> 0 >>>> >>>> So I try this: >>>> >>>> chop my$variable = (function); >>>> print "$variable\n"; >>>> >>>> The output is: >>>> text >>>> *** this is blank space output ***** >>>> >>>> So it get's rid of the "0", but outputs a new line. >>>> >>>> I try double chopping with same results. >>>> >>>> How can I finally get rid of it, I just want the text output. Ugh. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Try chop followed by chomp >>> >>> >> >> It doesn't work. For some reason, this always seems to be the hardest >> thing for me in perl. Ugh. >> >> >> >> > Can you post the appropriate code? Depending on what the function is > used for you could potentially change the return value there. You could > also check to make sure that it is in fact a new line character in case > it somehow ended up as something odd that is behaving that way. > Something like ord(substr($variable, 1)) after chop (and chomp). >
The function is like this: my$variable = (system "/usr/sfw/bin/openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey private.pem -in cryptedfile") -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
