Can we see a little more of the code? :o)
Doug
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From: Richie Crews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:43 AM
To: Richie Crews; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: Ok brain fart here...
Ok my problem is something not shown in the
Ok my problem is something not shown in the code... I was using a my $exch =
"ICWPEX01" for each if statement and the my's seemed to be canceling it
out...
Richie Crews
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What are the errors? It works fine here.
-Original Message-
From: Richie Crews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ok brain fart here...
Ok I am beating my head why this is not working...
$fname = ;
chomp $fname;
$fletter
--Warning-- Newbie responding
In what way is it not working?
I may be making the same mistake as you. It looks good to me, excepting
that there's no prompt to tell someone to type in a string. So if it ran
as-is, it would appear to be hanging there, when it's just waiting for
input.
-John
On 18 Jul 2001 11:26:45 -0400, Richie Crews wrote:
> Ok I am beating my head why this is not working...
>
> $fname = ;
> chomp $fname;
> $fletter = substr($fname,0,1);
> # now we have the first letter of the first name
> if ( $fletter =~ /[a-f]/i) {
> print "First letter is a-f\n";
>
I did a cut and paste and it seems to work fine here.. What errors do you
get or what result?
Doug
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From: Richie Crews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:27 AM
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Subject:Ok brain fart here...
Ok I am bea