Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-28 Thread Richard Lee
John W. Krahn wrote: SYNOPSIS gzip [ -acdfhlLnNrtvV19 ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ] gunzip [ -acfhlLnNrtvV ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ] zcat [ -fhLV ] [ name ... ] Note that the -d switch applies to gzip only. zcat by definition is *supposed* to decompress files. (Why wo

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard Lee wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: open FILE, "ls -tr | zcat -d $directory/$file |", or die qq/you My version of zcat does not have a -d switch, what does it do on your system? It appears that "ls -tr | " in front of zcat is superfluous? What do you think it will do there?

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-28 Thread Richard Lee
John W. Krahn wrote: open FILE, "ls -tr | zcat -d $directory/$file |", or die qq/you My version of zcat does not have a -d switch, what does it do on your system? It appears that "ls -tr | " in front of zcat is superfluous? What do you think it will do there? Just to follow up

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Lee
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard Lee wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: But better stop guessing and let Richard answer. yes, variables are particular names and later I wanted to refer back by variable names. However, for now I have done this so far so I just added as array instead of breaking out by var

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-14 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard Lee wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: But better stop guessing and let Richard answer. yes, variables are particular names and later I wanted to refer back by variable names. However, for now I have done this so far so I just added as array instead of breaking out by var names.. -- code is i

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Lee
Dr.Ruud wrote: "Jenda Krynicky" schreef: Dr.Ruud: Richard Lee: [$file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25] I didn't want to put them in array since I need to use individual named variable later And why is that? Maybe because in the real cod

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-14 Thread Dr.Ruud
"Jenda Krynicky" schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Richard Lee: >>> [$file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25] >>> I didn't want to put them in array >>> since I need to use individual named variable later >> >> And why is that? > > Maybe because in the real code they are not $file1, $file2,

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-14 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Dr.Ruud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Richard Lee schreef: > > > > [$file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25] > > I didn't want to put them in array > > since I need to use individual named variable later > > And why is that? Maybe because in the real code they are not $file1,

Re: assign default value to variables I assign from split

2008-05-13 Thread Dr.Ruud
Richard Lee schreef: > [$file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25] > I didn't want to put them in array > since I need to use individual named variable later And why is that? -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional