Re: Problem with reading string from commandline

2001-05-03 Thread Jose Vazquez
Greg, I already tried that, it doesn't work. :( When it gets to the ()[] it stops at once, with the error NO MATCH I need to remove the ()[] before it gets read, or ARGV needs somekind of option so it will ignore them. Thanks jose vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 3 May 2001, Greg Meckes wr

Re: Problem with reading string from commandline

2001-05-03 Thread Collin Rogowski
I think the problem is not with perl, but with your shell.  For the most shells () and [] are metacharacters (in bash [] is for  pattern matching and () is to fork a process, me thinks).  You either have to put the entire paramline into ''. Than you have  to alter your perl-programm, because you j

Re: Problem with reading string from commandline

2001-05-03 Thread Greg Meckes
Couldn't you just do something simple like: #at your "for" loop for ($t=0;$t<$z;$t++) { #Insert this $zin[$t] =~ s/\[//g; #Remove left bracket $zin[$t] =~ s/\]//g; #Remove right bracket #End insert #And continue with the rest... if ($zin[$t] eq "212.104.202.50") { #etc ### It'll

Re: Problem with reading string

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Brown
Use the 'g' switch so the pattern match is $mystring =~ s/\'/\\'/g; This 'g' says do it for all occurrences (I remember it by thinking of it as the 'g' in 'globally'). Dan "J. Patrick Lanigan" wrote: > > I was using: > > $mystring =~ s/\'/\\'/; > > ...to replace ' with \' in

RE: Problem with reading string

2001-05-01 Thread J. Patrick Lanigan
I was using: $mystring =~ s/\'/\\'/; ...to replace ' with \' in $mystring. It was working find I thought, until I encountered a string with multiple apostrophies. How do I replace 0 or more? Ex: "No More 'I Love You's'" ...should become: "No More \'I Love You\'s\'" I

Re: Problem with reading string

2001-05-01 Thread Greg Meckes
In your statements: print "@zin[$i] \n\r"; You should use: print "$zin[$i] \n\r"; And: > $ta = @zin[6]; > $tb = @zin[7]; > $tc = @zin[8]; > $td = @zin[9]; should be: > $ta = $zin[6]; > $tb = $zin[7]; > $tc = $zin[8]; > $td = $zin[9]; And: if (@zin[$t] = /212.104.202.50/g) { Should be: if ($z

Re: Problem with reading string

2001-05-01 Thread Collin Rogowski
I didn't quite get what your problem was. Can you elaborate on that? There are a couple of newbie problems in your script: > ## > #!/usr/bin/perl You should say: !/usr/bin/perl -w This turns on warnings (which is very helpful