regex help with wildcards

2001-08-20 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
Im not sure if this is possible but i want to delete all chars inbeteen < and > so if i had id like to delete it, Here an example of the best way i can figure out how to do it :) $string =~ s/\<.\>|\<..\>|\<...\>|\<\>|\<..\>// so I'm looking for a shorter way, I cant find any wildcards

Comparing Arrays

2002-07-23 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
Hi I would like to know how to compare 2 arrays. I have 2 arrays and I would like to compare the contents of the data. It doesn't matter in which order the data is stored so long as its the same. So comparing the bellow should read true, but if they didn't match it would be false. my @foo = qw(

RE: Comparing Arrays

2002-07-24 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
om what i can tell, it *should* be giving an error about being unable to coerce an array to a hash, but it seems to work fine, it's driving me nuts :) Merritt > > But mine has a similar defect: > >qw(foo foo bar) is considered equal to qw(foo bar bar) > > Rats! Tha

Best way to check memory usage?

2001-05-12 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
I want to write a program to check my systems memory but i have no idea how to check my free memory with perl, best i can think of is to get the data from "top" , but that isnt ideal in my situation. some1 please point me in the write direction Thanks Merritt

Re: Best way to check memory usage?

2001-05-12 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
freebsd, doesnt seem to have a /proc/meminfo :) Merritt - Original Message - From: "Terry Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Merritt Krakowitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 9:25 PM Subject: RE: Best way to check memory usage? > you