Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread John W. Krahn
org chen wrote: Hi, Hello, I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Thanks Org the txt file is like this: Fri Feb 13 14:31:26 2009 [PROCESS]: Welcom

RE: strange string match -- thanks

2009-02-15 Thread org chen
Dear Chas, Thanks so much, The problem fixed now. It has annoyed me for two days. Cheers Org > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:56:51 -0500> Subject: Re: strange string match> > From: chas.ow...@gmail.com> To: org.c...@live.com.au> CC: beginners@perl.org> > > On Sun,

Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
[ Please post from an email client/service that preserves newlines. ] org chen wrote: I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Probably because of the typo I pointed out below. while(my $line =

Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 20:32, org chen wrote: snip >while(my $line = <>){chomp( $line ); > print "current line is $line"; >if($line =~ /^[Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Wed|Fri|Sat|Sun]/){ >#push old data into array

strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread org chen
Hi, I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Thanks Org the txt file is like this: Fri Feb 13 14:31:26 2009[PROCESS]: Welcome to our system![ERROR]: Please