Evaluating parts of a string

k since it tries to evaluate the whole thing and '1>>' doesn't evaluate to anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks, Navid M. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To unsubs

Re: Evaluating parts of a string

7; and replace $filename with its actual value in my 2nd perl script. Thanks, Navid M. --- "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Navid M. wrote: > > > I was wondering how you can evaluate parts of a > > string: > > >

Re: Evaluating parts of a string

ot;File1"; $var = '$fileName'; $string = eval($var); # $string now stores 'File1'. But this won't work if $var='1>>$fileName'. I was hoping there would be a simple way getting around this without using any regexps. Navid M. --- Pete Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Evaluating parts of a string

That did it. Thanks Rob! --- Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Navid M. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering how you can evaluate parts of a > > string: > > > > Ex: $fileName = "File"; > > $var = '1>>$fileNa

Saving STDERR into a variable

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to save the error of a DOS command from the error stream into a variable. For example, the STDOUT of a DOS command can be saved to a variable this way: $var = `dir`; # Using back quotes but this won't save anything from STDERR. Thanks

Reading MSWord Files in Perl

Hi, Is there any way to read MSWord files using Perl. It doesn't seem to recognize the characters in a MSWord file. Thanks, Navid M. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your des

Re: embedding perl in html

Simple Example: Embed Demo Counting from 0 to 4! <% # perl code foreach $i (0..4) { # starts a small loop %> <%=$i%> #loop variable is printed for each number from 0 to 4 <% } # end of loop %> Finished! --- David O'Dell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to place a pe