On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 03:26 , Sven Bentlage wrote:
> ok, found out myself why it didn't work.
> I am not sure if it's an elegant chunk of code, but it works.
> Since the data is in the $_ variable, fooling around with $date_today in
> the regex coulnd't work out.
> (Omitted =~ since I
Hi Felix
thanks for the tips.
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 01:20 PM, Felix Geerinckx wrote:
> You have a precedence problem here, since '||' has higher precedence
> than ','. You should either use
>
> open(FH, " open FH, "
didn't know that yet. fixed it.
> (Why are
on Wed, 22 May 2002 10:26:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven
Bentlage) wrote:
> my $date = `/bin/date +%d.%m.%y`;
> $date =~ tr/./-/;
> chomp $date;
There is no need to fork here. You can accomplish the same from
within Perl, by replacing the above lines with
my ($d, $m, $y) = (localtime)[3,
ok, found out myself why it didn't work.
I am not sure if it's an elegant chunk of code, but it works.
Since the data is in the $_ variable, fooling around with $date_today in
the regex coulnd't work out.
(Omitted =~ since I use $_.)
Sven
my $date = `/bin/date +%d.%m.%y`;
$date =~ tr/./-/;
cho
Hi
I'l looking for a way to use a scalar in a regex. The snibblet below
shows in about what it is supposed to do.
if someone has a better idea how to compare the date value with the
$date_today value I extract from the text file, I'd be really happy
about any hints..
The snibblet doesn't work,
