Thanks very much Steve I was pulling my hair out on this one.. I interpreted the split/:+/ to be one or more ':' the key work being "or" I guess I really need to go back and review regexes
Jaime Hourihane CDC-IXIS 212.891.1935 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: Hourihane, Jaime Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printing values from hashes Jaime, The problem is with the regular expression that you are using in the split function. When you say to use 1 or more ":" for the separator, you are causing the password field to be skipped (if it is empty as you will have two "::" together. If you change your regexp to just be 'split(/:/);' your program works correctly. Steve On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:42:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I am new to hashes.... > Can somebody tell me why I can print $KEY but not $VALUE? > > ====================================================== > #!/usr/local/bin > open(GROUP, "/etc/group") || die "Cannot open:$!\n"; > while(<GROUP>) { > ($KEY,$gpass,$ggid,$VALUE) = split(/:+/); > $HASH{$KEY} = "$VALUE"; > print "the users in Group $KEY are $VALUE\n"; > > > } > ======================================================= > > Thanks in Advance > > Jaime Hourihane > CDC-IXIS > 212.891.1935 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============================================================= Steve Mayer Oracle Corporation Senior Member of Technical Staff 1211 SW 5th Ave. Portland Development Center Suite 900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portland, OR 97204 Phone: 503-525-3127 ============================================================= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
