Wags, come on.... you did not answer all my questions??? What about
I took away the + from the print and I had some errors, why is the + infront of the split needed in Perl? I looked in my programming perl and could not find it/. The reason I want to use split is b/c these numbers change frequently and I am guaranteed this "field" as opposed to using a substr the starting point of $_ would be 25 and the length would fluctuate. yes maybe I am not using split that way it should be, but If my delimiter would be anything it would have to be everything between \w+ , field 3 or a space. I am trying to get the difference between these 2 numbers b/c in the ASM env. regular files and archdone files should NEVER get larger that say.... 300. Can you provide or anyone else provide any more hints? thanks, Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer To Analyst --- WGO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <beginners@perl.org> ight.fedex.com> cc 03/11/2005 04:25 Subject PM RE: print with +split [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, > > Here is my code: > use strict; > use warnings; > my $dev = qw/original1/; > my $dev1 = qw/clinical1/; > my $fout = qq(/usr/local/log/fuji.out); > > open (OUT, "+>$fout") || die "unable to open file: $fout $!"; > open (FOO, "samcmd a $dev 2>\&1 |" ) || die "unable to open > pipe... $!"; > while (<FOO>) { > if (/regular files/ or /archdone files/) { > my $diff=0; > local $, = "\n"; > s/,//; > print +(split)[2], $,, $diff-=$1; I think you are mixing your metaphors. $1 is not field 1 , yes in awk maybe, but for Perl it deals with the ()'s in a regular expression so you would need the regular expression to accomplish your task. Wags ;) > } > > and it prints w/out the $diff code > > 62622 > > 62535 > > WITH the $diff code it is NOT subtracting the two numbers which is > what I need. > > I think the problem is $_ contains data from the original app command > which is > > regular files 62,622 597.488G 641547379187 > archdone files 62,535 597.008G 641032761295 > > and so I am saying subtract what is in field 1 , well field 1 is > empty, but why???? > finally, I took away the + from the print and I had some errors, why > is the + infront of the split needed in Perl? > > thank you, > derek > > Derek B. Smith > OhioHealth IT > UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams ******************************************************* This message contains information that is confidential and proprietary to FedEx Freight or its affiliates. It is intended only for the recipient named and for the express purpose(s) described therein. Any other use is prohibited. ******************************************************* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>