Re: how do I grep and have the matched single line in perl variable

2005-09-23 Thread Manish Sapariya
Thanks a lot Jeff. Sorry for posting the partial code. I should take care next time. The error that I made was to receieve the output of `my_utility` in scalar my $out = `my_utitlity`. After changing it to list as my @out = `my_utility` and using grep on it worked like charm. I didnt correctly

Re: how do I grep and have the matched single line in perl variable

2005-09-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 23, Manish Sapariya said: I want to have pure perl equivalent of following: my $out = `my_utility | grep manish`; which will give me the lines containing manish in the output of my_utility in variable $out. You'd use the aptly-named grep() function in Perl to get only those elements