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]