Hello Rich,
Friday, July 13, 2001, Busse, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BR> In C, I can do something like this:
BR> char ch ;
BR> char sz [] = "?:\\dir\\myfile.ini" ;
BR> for ( ch = 'c' ; ch <= 'z' ; ch++ )
BR> {
BR> sz[0] = ch ;
BR> . . .
BR> to spin thru all the possible drives on a Windows NT box. But Perl complains
BR> about trying to compare/increment a non-numeric. Any way around this?
well... it's not a perl way :)
in perl, you can write something like this:
my $path= ":\\dir\\myfile.ini" ;
for my $d ( 'a'..'z' )
{
my $fullpath= $d.$path;
....
}
BR> Also, to look at each character in a string, I can do:
BR> int i ;
BR> char sz [] = "A string" ;
BR> for ( i = 0 ; i < strlen (sz) ; i++ )
BR> {
BR> ch = sz [i] ;
BR> . . .
BR> How do I access each character in a string with Perl? TIA...
perldoc -f substr
Best wishes,
Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
