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On February 20, 2004 03:40, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
> Maybe I've had too much medication, but as far as I can tell this piece
> of code if supossed to read a file and spit out all the *.tgz lines it
> enounters:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $LOCATION=$ARGV[0];
this will be first thing on the command line. Perl doesn't work like C, AFAIK,
in that it doesn't put the command's name in ARGV[0].
> $FILENAME=ARGV[1];
$ARGV not ARGV ...
> open(FILE, $FILENAME) || die "Error: Cannot open $FILENAME. Aborting...\n";
> while(<FILE>) {
> chomp;
> if($_ =~ /tgz$/) {
> print "$_\n";
> };
> };
> close FILE;
> print "Done proccessing $FILENAME...\n";
the rest looks fine.
> I mean, there is no way there is something wrong with this, is there...?
besides the above errors, i'd question using Perl as a teaching language =)
Python might be a cleaner option.
> I am trying to teach my kid the art of coding....
cool =)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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