On Jul 22, Steffen Mueller said: >"Aaron J Mackey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb... > >> I can't seem to get this any shorter: I want the second through the >> next-to-last elements of @F joined by " ", and then the last item of @F. >> >perl -ae 'print"@F[1..$#F-1] >$F[$#F]"'
Uh... perl -ae 'print"@F[1..@F-2] $F[-1]"' saves two strokes. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ]
