Re: Question about print

2008-07-07 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
David Romero wrote: <<"EOF"; is the begging of a string EOF is the end of a string. This is used to create a multi line string. with out this is much more work print SENDMAIL "From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"; print SENDMAIL "To: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\";

Re: Question about print

2008-07-07 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
loody wrote: Dear all: below is what I excerpt form "perl cook book". What does <<"EOF" mean at the end of print? It has nothing to do with the print() function. It's the beginning of a "here document". http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#%3c%3cEOF open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -

Re: Question about print

2008-07-07 Thread David Romero
<<"EOF"; is the begging of a string EOF is the end of a string. This is used to create a multi line string. with out this is much more work print SENDMAIL "From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"; print SENDMAIL "To: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\"; uff. .. On Mo

Question about print

2008-07-07 Thread loody
Dear all: below is what I excerpt form "perl cook book". What does <<"EOF" mean at the end of print? thanks for your help, miloody open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -odq") or die "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n"; print SENDMAIL <<"EOF"; From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nathan

Re: a question about print in array

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 24, Frank said: print OUTPUT "@items\n"; When you place an array inside quotes, it's the same as saying join($", @array) where $" is the "list separator" variable, whose default value is " " (a single space). Thus, if @array is ("this", "that", "those"), then "@array" is "this th

a question about print in array

2005-05-24 Thread Frank
I met an interesting problem recently and am expecting your kind advice. my input file (for_test) is like as follows. I wish add a ">" to the first line (before the word blue) and remove ">" at the last line. # ---begining of the file, this line is not included in the file---# blue sky ski