Am Dienstag, 15. M�rz 2005 01.33 schrieb Anish Kumar K.:
> Hi
>
> This program I use to get the last line from the log file "cipe.log". and
> then write the line onto a text file "a.txt"
>
> system("tail -1 cipe.log > a.txt");
> open INPUT,"a.txt";
> my $line=<INPUT>;
>
> then I open the text file and read the value from the file handle.
>
> This invloves cumbersome process. I need to avoid writing to a file the o/p
> of the system command. Is there a way to assign to some variable...Here an easy way: use strict; use warnings; my $line; open FILE, "<", 'cipe.log' or die "error opening file: $!"; $line=$_ while <FILE>; # copies each line to $line :-( close FILE or warn "error closing file: $!"; print $line; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
