well, no, I'm not checking. But it is open correctly because I use it
earlier in the script and it never gets closed until the very end.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:22:11 -0500
Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if $#scans==-1, then the array is empty (of course!)
>
> Are you checking to make sure LOGFILE opened correctly?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: Perl-Beginners
> Subject: number of elements in array is -1?
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a problem. I just want to print the number of elements in an
> array. Here's the code:
> my @scans;
> my $last_host = "192.168.1.1";
> while (<LOGFILE>) {
> push (@scans, $_)
> if m/$last_host/i;
> }
>
> shouldn't that put all of the results into the @scans array? I know
> there'd just be a bunch of the same value.
> $array[0] would equal 192.168.1.1
> and $array[1] would equal 192.168.1.1
>
> I try to show the number of elements in the array like so:
> print "$#scans";
>
> But that prints "-1". I know for a fact there are at least 2 entries in
> LOGFILE that have an IP of 192.168.1.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Longren
> Captain Jack Communications
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.captainjack.com
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
