On Dec 14, Lance Prais said:

>if (substr($line, 42, 7) eq'"Running"')  #if statment to see if "Running" is

You're using too many quotes.  The value isn't `"Running"', but rather
`Running'.

  if (substr($line, 42, 7) eq 'Running') { ... }

or

  if (substr($line, 42, 7) eq "Running") { ... }

-- 
Jeff "japhy" Pinyan      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734   http://www.perlmonks.org/   http://www.cpan.org/
** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for?  <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.


-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to