Re[2]: [expert] Perl problem: print $x; does not work, only print $x,"\n";

[Rusty Carruth]

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> I had the same problem. I have a small script to extract my
> dhcp IP address from ifconfig. Under LM8 it didn't seem to
> work unless I made perl add a newline. Then I tried this:
> 
>       fred=`getip.pl`
>       echo $fred
> 
> and $fred did have the IP address. I don't think this is a
> perl problem but something to do with the shell.
> 
> 
> 

Thats exactly it!

Look - this is done on that same lm72 box that did not work before:

bash-2.04$ tcsh
[rusty@tempe-dhcp4 ~]$ perl
{ $| = 1; my $i = 1; print $i , "          asdf";}
1          asdf[rusty@tempe-dhcp4 ~]$ 
               ^^^^^^^my prompt^^^^^^

so with tcsh we get the expected results.

rc


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