Tom,
Thanks. I chomped $today, and that fixed the problem.
Chomping the variable $today made the match succeed,
since now the string did not have to match against the
newline that was at the end of $today.
Also, thanks for the tip about finding the size of the
array.
Jocelyn
On 2/17/07, Jocelyn Kirshenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> $today=`date +%m/%d/%y`;
> print $today;
You didn't chomp $today, so it has a newline at the
end. That's why
you didn't need to add a newline when you printed it
out, too. Do you
see now why $today failed in the pattern match?
> $size = $#arr;
> print "size of array is $size \n";
That's not the size of the array; it's one smaller.
The customary way
to get the size of an array is to use the array's
"name" in scalar
context:
my $size = @arr;
Hope this helps!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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