Re: splitting strings

2006-08-30 Thread Hien Le
On Aug 30, 2006, at 3:42 AM, Dr.Ruud wrote: Aaargh, I was suddenly mixing up split /()/ and /()/g. I really shouldn't post anymore without testing. Thank you all for the clarifications regarding split(). I should pay more attention when I read the documentation (or get more sleep).

splitting strings

2006-08-29 Thread Hien Le
that I am not seeing? Thanks in advance for your answers, -Hien My script: == #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $foo = 'abcdefghijklmnopq'; # Method 1 print( "\nMethod 1\n" ); my $foo_length = length( $foo ); for( my $i = 0; $i < $foo_length; $i += 5

file test

2006-01-23 Thread hien
dear all, i am trying to check if there are any files named file* (e.g. file_001.txt file1.doc) in my directory. if( -e "file*" ) { print("true\n"); } # this doesn't work else { print("false\n"); } if( -e "m/^file/" ) { print("true\n"); } # this doesn't work either else { print("false\n"); }