a) Thanks Mark for this. b) Thanks here again, I'll be using this in the future a lot and yes it is not what I expected, back to the drawing board.
-----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Mark (Service Delivery) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:42 PM To: Denham Eva; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Pls Help with a Basic Script. At the line: if($_ =~ m/ORA-/ ){ a) you don't need the m/ just / b) what are you expecting to be in $_ and have you checked (print stderr "$_";)? Kind regards, Mark Anderson SMS Deployment The Royal Bank of Scotland 113 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 5DE http://www.manufacturing.rbs.co.uk/GTrswi/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>