On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 08:28 -0700, cancer wrote: > Hi, > I am using Perl on Linux server. I m writing a code which will tell > us the Linux distro with version. For this the command is > > cat /etc/issue > > which is common for all the distributions of linux. But the output > varies for different distributions. > > For e.g. > > SUSE > > Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel \r (\l). > > REDHAT > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) > > I am able to save the output in a string. Now I want a code or > function which will give me only the number from the string. > >
my @numbers = split /\D+/; -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "Where there's duct tape, there's hope." Cross Time Cafe "Perl is the duct tape of the Internet." Hassan Schroeder, Sun's first webmaster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/