Chas Owens wrote:
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.
What a great question: Why was I using a scalar?
Two points:
1. I never found any documentation that suggested such a thing was possible.
2. Being new at this more often than not my errors are syntax related.
I'd like to get that out of the way so that when I try something and it
doesn't work, the reason is obvious, right now it isn't and I'm spending
alot of time checking things that are correct in order to find the
things that aren't.
Thanks for the hint, that will help quite a bit.
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