RE: globbing

2003-01-17 Thread Coonfield, Ben CONT
Bill: That works in Unix, but I assume that Phil wans something for win32. Phil: The problem is that with your version, you are passing the glob function to the shell, which doesn't understand it, instead of passing it to perl to evaluate. Try the following: perl -e "foreach (glob('*.txt')) {p

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2002-12-26 Thread Coonfield, Ben CONT
I cannot get the expected result from code similar to the following: my @source = (); @($source[0]){"host","port","dir"} = [($pSource =~ m/(\S+)(-\S+)?(:.*)?/)]; My intention is that: First, the match expression returns a array of three values, which are to be assigned to three hash elements. T

Counting regex occurrences

2002-12-12 Thread Coonfield, Ben CONT
It seems like there should be a simpler way to count the number of occurrences of a regular expression. For example: @temp= / Current Value: /g; $count=@temp; I don't really care about @temp, I only want to get the value for $count. So how can I do this without creating a (named) temporary varia