On 5/1/06, Rance Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
assume the following code:my $output = qx{systemcall}; assume that the output of the systemcall looks something like this name\n value\n
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what like to do is get the name/value pairs into a hash of some sort
snip Why are you using a scalar? This is the perfect place to use an array: my @output = qx(systemcall}; chomp(@output); my %hash = @output; #first val becomes key, second val, third key, fourth, val, etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
