Re: expanding a pattern

2001-11-14 Thread David Wall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Kidger) wrote on 13 Nov 2001: > > I have a pattern like >$hosts = "fred[1,3-7,9-22]" > > Is there a simple way to generate an expanded list like: >fred1 fred3 fred4 fred5 ... *If* you can trust your input, here's a quick way: use strict; use warnings; my $st

Re: expanding a pattern

2001-11-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Daniel Kidger wrote: > > I have a pattern like >$hosts = "fred[1,3-7,9-22]" > > Is there a simple way to generate an expanded list like: >fred1 fred3 fred4 fred5 ... > etc. Well, I don't know how simple you consider this: my $hosts = "fred[1,3-7,9-22]"; my ( $name, $list ) = $hosts =~

expanding a pattern

2001-11-13 Thread Daniel Kidger
I have a pattern like $hosts = "fred[1,3-7,9-22]" Is there a simple way to generate an expanded list like: fred1 fred3 fred4 fred5 ... etc. ? Daniel. -- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] One Bridewell St.,