On Thursday 08 September 2005 13:55, Christopher Spears wrote:
> I want to catch the various parts of the output of the
> date command. Here is my script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> my $date = system("date");
>
> $date =~ /(\w+)/;
>
> my $day = $1;
>
> print "Day: $day\n";
>
> Here is my output:
>
> Thu Sep 8 10:22:14 CEST 2005
> Day: 0
>
> What is going on? Does this mean that nothing was
> captured?
>
> -Chris
Hello Chris,
Use backtics for capturing the output of a system command to a
variable. ie
my $dat = `date`;
Try this out.
Ranish
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