--- David Draley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am trying to scan a UNIX file for a string. I used a filehandle to do
> this task - (Below) How would I complete the same taks without using
> filehandles? Would it be GREP??
> ------------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> open (DD,"/etc/passwd") || die "cannot open: $!";
>
> while (<DD>)
> {
> if (/cm398/)
> {
> print "$_ \n";
> }
> }
>
> thank you
Hello David,
What's wrong with using a file handle? That's how you you gain access to a file.
If you're on a *nix system, you could use grep, but then you have code that's not
terribly
portable and, depending upon how you call grep and pass it arguments, you could open
up a whopping
security whole.
Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
=====
Senior Programmer
Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/)
"Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/
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